“What are you afraid of?
I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.”
Source: The Brutal Telling
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Canadian woman writer 1958Related quotes
“I'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket.”
Willy Russell Shirley Valentine
Shirley, page 37.
Source: Shirley Valentine (1986)
“Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light
Rising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine.”
John Perry Barlow (1947–2018) American poet and essayist
"Estimated Prophet" on the Grateful Dead album Terrapin Station (1977); lyrics by Barlow http://artsites.ucsc.edu/GDead/agdl/estimate.html, music by Bob Weir · Grateful Dead performance at Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ (27 April 1977) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WAK2vihBdw · JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA (7 July 1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR5iB3ITGIU <br class="br">Context: p>My time coming, any day, don't worry about me, no<br>Been so long I felt this way, I'm in no hurry, no.<br>Rainbows end down that highway where ocean breezes blow<br>My time coming, voices saying, they tell me where to go.<br>Don't worry 'bout me, no no, don't worry 'bout me, no<br>And I'm in no hurry, no no no, I know where to go. California, preaching on the burning shore<br>California, I'll be knocking on the golden door<br>Like an angel, standing in a shaft of light<br>Rising up to paradise, I know I'm going to shine.</p
“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Source: Measure for Measure
“Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.”
Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
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Henri Barbusse (1873–1935) French novelist
Light (1919), Ch. XXIII - Face To Face
Context: There is nothing between the paradise dreamed of and the paradise lost. There is nothing, since we always want what we have not got. We hope, and then we regret. We hope for the future, and then we turn to the past, and then we begin slowly and desperately to hope for the past! The two most violent and abiding feelings, hope and regret, both lean upon nothing. To ask, to ask, to have not! Humanity is exactly the same thing as poverty. Happiness has not the time to live; we have not really the time to profit by what we are. Happiness, that thing which never is — and which yet, for one day, is no longer!