“The ''kingdom of Heaven'' is a condition of the heart -not something that comes ''upon the earth'' or ''after death.''”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?”
Chuck Palahniuk
“Very old are we men; / Our dreams are tales / Told in dim Eden / By Eve's nightingales.”
Walter de La Mare
“This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, Th”
William Shakespeare
“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”
Joyce Cary
“The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.”
Sean O'Casey