We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
The post-totalitarian malady has taken its most acute form in Romania. And it has taken place for very specific reasons. The repression here has been more cruel, more brutal, than in other states caught in the inferno of a 'socialist paradise.'
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise.
On 'Death In Paradise,' I had a CGI pet lizard and had to react to nothing, which was hideously embarrassing.
One of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise.
Move to California. Malibu is paradise.
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
When you look at the original 'Paradise Lost' film, you see three kids who can't defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way - witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.
