Heaven Quotes

To create something from nothing is one of the greatest feelings, and I would-I don't know, I wish it upon everybody. It's heaven.

I know there will be no more tears in heaven.

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one... that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain.

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must be looked at as a microcosm--a little universe, formed of a host of self-propagating organisms, inconceivably minute and as numerous as the stars in heaven.

He whose son is obedient to him, whose wife's conduct is in accordance with his wishes, and who is content with his riches has his heaven here on earth.

The greatest science in the world; in heaven and on earth; is love.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

Who leaves behind all human bonds, And has cast off the bonds of heaven, Detached from all bonds everywhere: He is the one I call a brahmin.

The rain could turn to gold and still your thirst would not be slaked. Desire is unquenchable or it ends in tears, even in heaven.

Greater than all the joys of heaven and earth, Greater still than dominion over all the worlds, Is the joy of reaching the stream.

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

Only where love and need are one, and the work is play for mortal stakes is the deed ever really done for Heaven and the future's sakes.

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness.