Eden Quotes

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out is our own ignorance and folly.

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant.

Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

Being in the nude isn't a disgrace unless you're being promiscuous about it. After all, when God created Adam and Eve, they were stark naked. And in the Garden of Eden, God was probably naked as a jaybird too!

This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected.

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.

The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

From Eden is spoken from the Devil's point of view. I always loved in blues music how the Devil can be a character who walks and talks. So awful is your state that it seems to be a presence around you. I don't really spend time thinking about the nature of God but I'm interested in what people say about God, how it is used to control people and change policies in the physical realm.

[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from?

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

After all, he put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden naked as jaybirds!

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

He was born in fury and he lived in lightning. Tom came headlong into life. He was a giant in joy and enthusiasms. He didn't discover the world and its people, he created them. When he read his father's books, he was the first. He lived in a world shining and fresh and as uninspected as Eden on the sixth day. His mind plunged like a colt in a happy pasture, and when later the world put up fences, he plunged against the wire, and when the final stockade surrounded him, he plunged right through it and out. And as he was capable of giant joy, so did he harbor huge sorrow.