Paradis/people

Famous quotes containing the words paradis and/or people:

“Al that joye is went away,
That wele is comen to weylaway,
To manie harde stoundes.

Hoere paradis hy nomen here,
And now they lien in helle ifere:”
—Unknown. Ubi Sunt Qui ante Nos Fuerunt? (L. 16–20)

“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)