Heaven Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt.

There is no greater power in heaven or on earth than the commitment to a dream.