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“Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) first seen 1979 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Abbey's Road (1979)
“One wishes to go on. On this great river one could glide forever — and here we discover the definition of bliss, salvation, Heaven, all the old Mediterranean dreams: a journey from wonder to wonder, drifting through eternity into ever-deeper, always changing grandeur, through beauty continually surpassing itself: the ultimate Homeric voyage.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) said by 1989 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of wind Depth of sea Stability of earth Firmness of rock.”
Saint Patrick (385–461) said by 461 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Paul Valéry insists on the inescapable commitment of the poetic language to the negation. The verses of this language “ne parlent jamais que de choses absentes.” They speak of that which, though absent, haunts the established universe of discourse and behavior as its most tabooed possibility—neither heaven nor hell, neither good nor evil but simply “le bonheur.”
Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979) said by 1979 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Let Earth and Heaven his timeless death deplore, For both their worths shall equal him no more.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, march away; and let due praise be given Neither to fate nor fortune, but to Heaven.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) said by 1593 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The news isn’t how bad things are. The news is how good they could be. And our own activity could be part of the unfolding of Heaven on earth. There is no more powerful motivation than to feel we’re being used in the creation of a world where love has healed all wounds.”
Marianne Williamson (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk! The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work. This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil: Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) first seen 1898 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Toiling of Felix, Pt. III, st. 5. (1898)
“For men have dulled their eyes with sin, And dimmed the light of heaven with doubt, And built their temple-walls to shut thee in, And framed their iron creeds to shut thee out.”
Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) first seen 1904 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: God of the Open Air, st. III (1904).
“When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Christian's Mistake (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1865), Ch. 2, p. 64
“The world! It is a word capable of as diverse interpretations or misinterpretations as the thing itself — a thing by various people supposed to belong to heaven, man, or the devil, or alternatively to all three.”
Dinah Craik (1826–1887) said by 1887 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Aid from heaven you may have," he said, "by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had so accustomed himself to wield the constitutional cat-of-nine-tails, that heaven will hardly be happy to him unless he be allowed to flog the cherubim.”
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) said by 1882 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To all the families out there without their fathers they must remember that our eternal Father in heaven will be there for us at all times and we should celebrate because of that.”
Epeli Ganilau (1951–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.”
Frank Crane (1861–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I've waited for a thousand years / For you to come and blow me out my mind The world around us makes me feel so small,Lyla If you can't hear me call / Then I can't say, Lyla / Heaven help you catch me if I fall”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I still don't know what I was waiting for / A big love to fall down from the sky Heaven must have sent you / To save me from the rapture”
Noel Gallagher (born 1967) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.....I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming.”
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If human evolution is to continue along the same lines as in the past, it will probably involve a still greater prolongation of childhood and retardation of maturity. Some of the characters distinguishing adult man will be lost. It was not an embryologist or palaeontologist who said, "Except ye . . . become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
J. B. S. Haldane (1892–1964) said by 1964 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I prize thy gentle heart, Free from ambition, falsehood, or art, And thy good mind, Daily refined, By pure desire To fan the heaven-seeking fire.”
Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) said by 1850 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was not my fault, but the fault of others.”
Davy Crockett (1786–1836) said by 1836 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, p. 106
“Remembering... that Eratosthenes of Cyrene, employing mathematical theories and geometrical methods, discovered from the course of the sun, the shadows cast by an equinoctial gnomon, and the inclination of the heaven that the circumference of the earth is two hundred and fifty-two thousand stadia, that is, thirty-one million five hundred thousand paces.”
Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The word "universe" means the general assemblage of all nature, and it also means the heaven that is made up of the constellations and the courses of the stars.”
Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The moon makes her circuit of the heaven in twenty-eight days plus about an hour, and with her return to the sign from which she set forth, completes a lunar month.”
Vitruvius (80–15 BC) said by 15 BC at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In Hell you become what you fear yourself to be. In Heaven you may become what you hope yourself to be,” said Lucifer.”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Can Hell and Heaven be merely the difference between ignorance and knowledge?”
Michael Moorcock (born 1939) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When it rains, guess it pours—yes, it does Wish there wasn't any pain, but I can't pretend there ain't I ain't placin' any blame I ain't pointin' fingers, Heaven knows I've never been a saint”
“The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.”
Isaiah Berlin (1909–1997) said by 1997 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All I can say in my solitude is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one American, English, Turk who will help to heal this open sore of the world.”
David Livingstone (1813–1873) said by 1873 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Africa; an essay on government civilization in new countries, and on the foundation, organization and administration of the Congo Free State, THE ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT, Page 137-138. Personal Life of Livingstone. W.…
“How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can only be conjectured...No one knows, when he places a marijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveller in a musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer...”
Harry J. Anslinger (1892–1975) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Marijuana — Assassin of Youth" in The American Magazine, Vol. 24 (July 1937), p. 18
“Oh very young, What will you leave us this time? There’ll never be a better chance to change your mind. And if you want this world to see better days, Will you carry the words of love with you? Will you ride the great white bird into heaven? And though you want them to last forever, You know they never will — you know they never will. And the goodbye makes the journey harder still.”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“One is the ever kindling star King of the immortal spark In heaven’s eye”
Cat Stevens (born 1948) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Just as a tree cut down, that fell To north, or southward, there it lies: So man departs to heaven or hell, Fix'd in the state wherein he dies.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.”
Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) said by 1966 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[T]he modern man who has ceased to believe, without ceasing to be credulous, hangs, as it were, between heaven and earth, and is at rest nowhere.”
Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) said by 1974 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now a life of honour includes various kinds of conduct; it may include the chest in which Regulus was confined, or the wound of Cato which was torn open by Cato’s own hand, or the exile of Rutilius, or the cup of poison which removed Socrates from gaol to heaven.”
Seneca the Younger (5 BC–65) said by 65 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven sometimes speaks through the mouths of lunatics, drunkards and children. (1042)”
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.”
D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) first seen 1913 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sons and Lovers - Edited out of the 1913 edition, restored in 1992
“Now heaven be thanked, I am out of love again! I have been long a slave, and now am free;”
Jan Struther (1901–1953) said by 1953 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In heaven, all ordinary thought is higher and more melodious than Milton's song. Then, would he add another verse to any strain that he had left unfinished here?”
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804–1864) said by 1864 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Take the moral law and make a nave of it And from the nave build haunted heaven. Thus, The conscience is converted into palms, Like windy citherns hankering for hymns.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First published in The Dial, no. 73 (July 1922)
“The difficultest rigor is forthwith, On the image of what we see, to catch from that Irrational moment its unreasoning, As when the sun comes rising, when the sea Clears deeply, when the moon hangs on the wall Of heaven-haven. These are not things transformed. Yet we are shaken by them as if they were. We reason about them with a later reason.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They married well because the marriage-place Was what they loved. It was neither heaven nor hell. They were love’s characters come face to face.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) said by 1955 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No one gets to their heaven without a fight -- Armor and Sword (2007)”
Neil Peart (1952–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I want to cry out to these young girls: Stop! Think! . . . For heaven's sake, don't fall down the rabbit hole of the lesbian scene. You will never escape, and your talent will wither on the vine. Your energy will be wasted and absorbed in repetition without progression. Women alone are Spenser's Bower of Bliss, enclosed, comfortable, and dangerous.”
Camille Paglia (born 1947) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you wanna find gold Go looking in the mountains If you wanna find silver Go digging in stones If you wanna find heaven Go reading in the Bible If you wanna find love Go looking at home.”
Kenny Rogers (1938–2020) first seen 1991 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: If You Want to Find Love" (co-written with Skip Ewing and Max D. Barnes), on Back Home Again (1991)