It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
– Charles Dickens
Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
– Alan Alda, GQ, Summer, 1980
Jean Paul Sartre says that ‘Hell is other people!’ In the name of completing this sentence we must also say this: ‘Heaven is other people too!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose
– Johann von Goethe
Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her.
– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 5
– William Shakespeare
Let's drink to the spirit of gallantry and courage that made a strange Heaven out of unbelievable Hell, and let's drink to the hope that one day this country of ours, which we love so much, will find dignity and greatness and peace again.
– Noel Coward
Liberty is one of the most valuable blessings that Heaven has bestowed upon mankind.
– Miguel de Cervantes
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
– Julia A. Fletcher Carney
Love is a flame that burns in heaven, And whose soft reflections radiate to us. Two worlds are opened, two lives given to it. It is by love tht we double our being It is by love that we approach God.
– Aimee Martin
Love is made in heaven and consummated on earth.
– John Lyly
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
– Sir Walter Scott
Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a Heaven in Hell's dispite.
– William Blake
Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead
– unknown
May you be in heaven a half-hour before the devil knows your dead.
– Unknown
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
– Walter Savage Landor
My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys.
– Chao Li-hua
My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.
– Saint Augustine, Confessions
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
– William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3
Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.
– Abraham Lincoln
No man can go to Heaven, but everyman can build one!
No pessimest ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
– Helen Keller
