lost paradise
Heaven now gone
Lost paradise refers to an ideal state or place that once existed but has been forfeited or destroyed.
The phrase evokes the biblical Garden of Eden, from which humanity was expelled.
It applies to any golden age, innocent past, or perfect condition now beyond recovery: The old neighborhood was a lost paradise of unlocked doors and block parties.
The concept suggests both longing and irreversibility.
- Garden of EdenBiblical first home
- fallDescend under gravity
- fall from graceLoss of status or reputation
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
- exileBanishment from homeland
garden · tree of knowledge · forbidden · fruit · serpent · angel · gates · banishment · nostalgia · longing · utopia · heaven · expelled · golden age · temptation · original sin · sin · Adam
- mythologyZeus, Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Odin
- imaginary worldsdreamland, fairyland, wonderland, fantasy realm, dream world
- paradiseEden, edenic, Garden of Eden, elysian, Elysium
- golden agegolden age, Eden, utopia, Arcadia, Elysium
- heroic taleshero's journey, epic poem, saga, odyssey, quest
- ParadisesEden, Garden of Eden, utopia, Shangri-La, Elysium
lost paradisehell
Underworld of suffering
damnation · perdition · eternal torment · inferno · Gehenna
lost paradiseredemption
Recovery or moral restoration
restoration · salvation · resurrection · apotheosis · ascension
lost, lose, loses, losing, loser, losers, loss, losses, paradise