You do not enter into paradise tomorrow or the day after or in ten years; you enter it today when you are poor and crucified. Leon Bloy
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. Jean Baudrillard
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. Karl Popper
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring – it was peace. Milan Kundera