110 Quotes About Eden

It is not weakness to open your heart. It does not make you less of a man to ask for help. To turn to someone when you’re vulnerable. To need a shoulder to cry on. You don’t have to bear the weight of anything by yourself.

Is there an intelligent man or woman now in the world who believes in the Garden of Eden story? If you find any man who believes it, strike his forehead and you will hear an echo. Something is for rent.

New York used to have Edenlike summers.

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

But things linger in my head. They don’t go away.Maybe he’s right. Maybe I really am still a kid who doesn’t know how to move on.

It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.

It’s not the fruit’s fault it was forbidden. An object can only be a conduit for evil; whether it is an apple in the Garden of Eden or a smartphone which bears its image some six thousand years later.

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.

How can there ever be any serious expectation of living in paradise, if one cannot behave appropriately, or be trusted to respect and honour all life?