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Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. - John Milton, Paradise Lost — Lisa Unger

At some point paradise would be lost. — Haruki Murakami

Maybe this planet is a paradise for the majority but to me feels like I'm traveling in hell and finding lost angels I must rescue. — Robin Sacredfire

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. — Samuel Johnson

Their rising all at once was as the sound
Of thunder heard remote. — John Milton

Blake said Milton was a true poet and of the Devil's party without knowing it. I am of the Devil's party and know it. — Philip Pullman

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. — John Milton

Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd. — John Milton

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. — Marguerite Young

Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all. — John Milton

Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest. — John Milton

Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. — Susan Ertz

A new world is coming ... The paradise that man lost will be regained ... One day we will live in a brand-new world. — Billy Graham

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. — F.R. Leavis

The most dangerous mistake that our souls are capable of, is, to take the creature for God, and earth for heaven (374). — Richard Baxter

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. — John Milton

Any love is a home-sickness, a longing for a lost paradise. — Jean Klein

. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to. — Peter R. Pouncey

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. — Henning Mankell

Make your paradise here on earth, your own little paradise — Bangambiki Habyarimana

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. — John Milton

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise. — Thomas Paine

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is. — John Milton

The only true paradise is paradise lost — Marcel Proust

A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life
we went soft, we lost our edge. — Frank Herbert

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat. — Orson Welles

Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within. — John Dryden

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost. — Melissa Coleman

"better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben

Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav'n. — John Milton

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin

The only possible paradises are those we have lost — Marcel Proust

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden. — Selena Kitt

Paradise is there, behind that door, in the next room; but I have lost the key.
Perhaps I have only mislaid it. — Kahlil Gibran

On a wing and a prayer. (After being asked how the angels make love in Milton's Paradise Lost). — Benjamin R. Smith

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. — Dorothy L. Sayers

And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me. — John Milton

Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? — Julio Cortazar

God is thy law, thou mine. — John Milton

What hath night to do with sleep? — John Milton

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. - JOHN MILTON, PARADISE LOST — Blake Crouch

Paradise Lost is sometimes Heaven found. — Arthur Yorinks

They changed their minds, Flew off, and into strange vagaries fell. — John Milton

So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton

Still paying, still to owe.
Eternal woe! — John Milton

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it. — Callan McAuliffe

Let us hope that some natural paradises on Earth remain totally lost and not to be found till men fully grasp the endless value of the beauty! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise. — Horace Mann

The never-ending flight Of future days. — John Milton

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good.
— John Milton

The only paradise is paradise lost. — Marcel Proust

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. — Marcel Proust

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown. — John Milton