best quotations about
Heaven |
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Quotations
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 12 likes | |
Paradise on earth is where I am. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 9 likes | |
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 9 likes | |
Of the delights of this world, man cares most for sexual intercourse yet he has left it out of his
heaven. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 8 likes | |
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes | |
When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes | |
If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 5 likes | |
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 5 likes | |
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges, 1899-1986, Argentine writer 4 likes | |
Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 4 likes | |
Hell is full of good meanings and wishes. But heaven is fill of good works. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes | |
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes | |
Heaven is a cheap Purchase whatever it cost. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes | |
A happy family is but an earlier heaven. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes | |
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. — Will Rogers, 1879-1935, American actor 3 likes | |
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. — Montesquieu, 1689-1755, French thinker 2 likes | |
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three powers in man of conversing with paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes | |
A kiss on the beach when there is a full moon is the closest thing to heaven. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes | |
Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 2 likes | |
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 2 likes | |
I believe the only way we can reach the Kingdom of Heaven is to have the Kingdom of Heaven in our hearts. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes | |
The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. — Marcel Proust, 1871-1922, French writer 2 likes | |
If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 2 likes | |
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness. | |
Justice is good, but it’s for the angels. The man can not endure, he needs mercy. I wonder, my God, if the gate to heaven is at the bottom of hell. | |
It is easier for the imagination to compose a hell with pain than a paradise with pleasure. | |
The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it. | |
Good angels are fallible – they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. | |
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten. | |
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. | |
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. | |
My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets. | |
There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist | |
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. |
Bible Quotes
God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed. — Old Testament ‐ Genesis 2:8 3 likes |
Quotes in Verse
Yes, Paradise was not a nostalgia. Nor, much more, a reward. It was a right. | |
Parting is all we know of Heaven, and all we need of Hell. |
Funny Quotes
If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 6 likes | |
Heaven: the Coney Island of the Christian imagination. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 2 likes |
Proverbs
Even in paradise it is not good to be alone. 9 likes |