All Quotes By Tag: Eden

“Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!”

Card image cap - Robert G. Ingersoll,
Tag: action, eden, faith, garden-of-eden, ignorance, knowledge, myth, religion, skepticism, superstition, thought, tree-of-knowledge,

“It’s a terrible paradox that we march toward a virtual Eden when there is still time to reverse pollution and find it again in nature.”

Card image cap - Lorin Morgan-Richards
Tag: cure, earth, eden, happiness, living-well, nature, pollution, technology,

“Raised as we are on the mythology of the Old Testament, we might say that an idyll is an image that has remained with us like a memory of Paradise: life in Paradise was not like following a straight line to the unknown; it was not an adventure. It moved in a circle among known objects. Its monotony bred happiness, not boredom.”

Card image cap - Milan Kundera,
Tag: cyclical, eden, happiness, idyll, linear-time, lost-eden, monotony, mythology, paradise,

“God was never created the economy.Men found it after banished from Eden.”

Card image cap - Toba Beta,
Tag: economy, eden, history, truth,

“but what if God have seen,And death ensue? then I shall be no more,And Adam wedded to another Eve,Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct;A death to think. Confirmed then I resolve,Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe:So dear I love him, that with him all deathsI could endure, without him live no life.”

Card image cap - John Milton,
Tag: adam, death, eden, eve, god, love, paradise, sin,

“I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to the thought that God hadn’t cared, hadn’t helped Robin. I thought all the way back to the story of Eden. God, all-loving, all-wise, had surely wanted people to be happy and healthy and good; it was the Devil who spoiled it all…and since so many people were miserable and sickly and bad the Devil must indeed by very powerful. The lifeless, voiceless thing, lately a singing boy, which they had cut down and put under a sack in the barn to await an unhallowed cross-road grave seemed to me to prove the power of the Devil.”Lady Alice Rowhedge”

Card image cap - Norah Lofts,
Tag: devil, eden, god,

“Ô, Wanderess, WanderessWhen did you feel your most euphoric kiss? Was I the source of your greatest bliss?”

Card image cap - Roman Payne
Tag: adam-and-eve, beauty, blush, blushing, change, childhood, childlike, childlikeness, children, courting, desire, desiring-someone, dreameress, eden, garden-of-eden, god, hope-and-despair, innocence, intoxication, kissing, life-change, love-at-first-sight, love-making, love-quote, lovers, lovers-love-story, lovers-sadness, loving, loving-someone, making-love, nocturne, opium, parisian-reverie, passion, payne, poem, poetry, poetry-quotations, poetry-quotes, quotes-from-poems, roman, roman-payne, romance, romantic, running, sacred, sea, secretive, secrets, seduction, seductive, sensual, sensuality, sexual-quote, sexuality, short-love-quote, spring, storybook, strength, summer, summer-rain, summer-showers, sunshine, surrender, sweet, the-wanderess, thighs, time, travel, true-love, wander, wanderer, wanderess, wandering, wanderlust, wayfaring, wet-hair, wilderness, wildflower, wisdom, woman, woman-s-character, woman-s-strength, womanhood, women, women-s-inspirational, women-s-liberation, women-s-strength, young-love,

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”

Card image cap - J.R.R. Tolkien,
Tag: eden, god, redemption,