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“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“And when Love speaks, the voice of all the gods make heaven drowsy with the harmony.” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Each of us has heaven and hell in him” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Whoever will listen will hear the speaking Heaven.” A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“All sinners would be miserable in heaven.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Oh! love! . . . That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.” Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!” William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost
“Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven: and now prepare thee for another sight.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The heavens are calling you, and wheel around you, Displaying to you their eternal beauties, And still your eye is looking on the ground; Whence He, who all discerns, chastises you.” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Aim at Heaven and you will get earth 'thrown in': aim at earth and you will get neither.” C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
“Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine that all the world will be in love with night and pay no worship to the garish sun.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“Service to others is the rent we pay for our room in Heaven.” Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly
“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves—or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“He gave his honours to the world again, his blessed part to heaven, and slept in peace.” William Shakespeare, Henry VIII
“How dare the plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment?” William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre
“All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost.” James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
“Heaven have mercy on us all—Presbyterians and Pagans alike—for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not...” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“They come, an’ they quit an’ go on; an’ every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven.” John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
“Things grow at night. My imagination is available to me at night. All my preconceptions of things go away. Sometimes you could be looking for heaven in the wrong places. Sometimes it could be under your feet. Or in your bed.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“When I die, I hope to go to heaven—whatever the hell that is— and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason
“The weariest and most loathed worldly life that age, ache, penury, and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise to what we fear of death.” William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

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