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• “For the good of believing in a life after birth For the good of your body so bright For the good of the search for some heaven on earth For the good of one hell of a night, for the good of one hell of a night.”

  Jim Steinman (1947–2021) said by 2021 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.”

  Mikhail Lermontov (1814–1841) first seen 1830 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Demon" (1830)

• “What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.”

  Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “My Son, make it no matter of thine, if thou see others honoured and exalted, and thyself despised and humbled. Lift up thine heart to Me in heaven, and then the contempt of men upon earth will not make thee sad.”

  Thomas à Kempis (1379–1471) said by 1471 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It might be in my party's interest for him to sit there, it's not in the national interest and I would say, for heaven's sake man, go.”

  David Cameron (born 1966) first seen 2016 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Speaking to Leader of the Opposition Jeremy Corbyn in the House of Commons during Prime Minister's Questions (June 29, 2016), see David Cameron to Jeremy Corbyn: For heaven's sake, go, BBC News (June 29, 2016)

• “All of us are heaven-sent, and there was never meant to be only one.”

  Brandon Boyd (born 1976) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Let us pardon him his hope of a vain apocalypse, and of a second coming in great triumph upon the clouds of heaven. Perhaps these were the errors of others rather than his own; and if it be true that he himself shared the general illusion, what matters it, since his dream rendered him strong against death, and sustained him in a struggle to which he might otherwise have been unequal?”

  Ernest Renan (1823–1892) said by 1892 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Our condition is like the darting lightning, one instant flashing and the next disappearing. Sometimes we are seated above the fourth heaven, and at other times we cannot see the back of our feet.”

  Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.”

  Saadi (1210–1292) said by 1292 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.”

  Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) said by 1731 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “It was very prettily said, that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom heaven is pleased to bestow it.”

  Richard Steele (1671–1729) first seen 1710 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Tatler, no. 203 (27 July 1710)

• “...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall — poets have no choice about this — but he waits writing; and this — other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible — is the best way for a poet to wait.”

  Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “In Heaven all reviews will be favorable; here on earth, the publisher realizes, plausibility demands an occasional bad one, some convincing lump in all that leaven, and he accepts it somewhat as a theologian accepts Evil.”

  Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) said by 1965 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Love is the Heaven Toward which the flowers, rivers, nations, atoms, creatures — you and I Are rushing by the straight path of action right, Or winding laboriously on error’s path, All to reach haven there at last.”

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1893–1952) said by 1952 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Thank Heaven who gave us the woman!" (concert in Florence, june 2005)”

  Vasco Rossi (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Children thrown from heaven see the peacock's jealous tremble stars congeal into instructions showing how the sky is opened and spread down like a bedsheet”

  Andy Partridge (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “...to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”

  Tom Robbins (1932–2025) said by 2025 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.”

  Milan Kundera (1929–2023) said by 2023 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Ah well. Heaven is a state of mind. I knew that now.”

  David Brin (born 1950) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “This knowledge will not fall from heaven; it will be acquired only by those who have the mind and the will to study, as Marx required of his first disciples. Wilhelm Liebknecht’s little volume of reminiscences will be an aid and stimulus in this direction. It ought to have a place on the bookshelf of every revolutionary worker.”

  James P. Cannon (1890–1974) first seen 1930 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Marx, the Man" (1930)

• “I've got to make it to heaven; for going through hell.”

  50 Cent (born 1975) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”

  John Fletcher (1579–1625) said by 1625 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Heaven-gates are not so highly arched As princes' palaces; they that enter there Must go upon their knees.”

  John Webster (1578–1634) said by 1634 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.”

  Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I cannot reach it, and my striving eye Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive, Those white designs which children drive, And the thoughts of each harmless hour, With their content too in my pow'r, Quickly would I make my path even, And by mere playing go to heaven.”

  Henry Vaughan (1621–1695) said by 1695 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.”

  Matthew Prior (1664–1721) first seen 1703 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Charity (1703).

• “So when I'm killed, don't wait for me, Walking the dim corridor; In Heaven or Hell, don't wait for me, Or you must wait for evermore. You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.”

  Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.”

  Robert Graves (1895–1985) said by 1985 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Reason gains all men, by compelling none. Mercy was always Heaven's distinguished mark: And he, who bears it not, has no friend there.”

  Aaron Hill (writer) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung this strain: 'Rule, Britannia, rule the waves; Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.'”

  James Thomson (poet, born 1700) first seen 1740 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Alfred, Act II, sc. v (1740)

• “An elegant sufficiency, content, Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books, Ease and alternate labour, useful life, Progressive virtue, and approving Heaven!”

  James Thomson (poet, born 1700) first seen 1158 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: l. 1158

  Also quoted by: James Thomson

• “Ah! what avail the largest gifts of Heaven, When drooping health and spirits go amiss? How tasteless then whatever can be given! Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise, of health.”

  James Thomson (poet, born 1700) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of Heaven and earth.”

  Jonathan Edwards (theologian) first seen 1734 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: The Justice of God in the Damnation of Sinners (1734).

• “Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.”

  Jonathan Edwards (theologian) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) first seen 1761 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Book VI (1761-1762), Ch. 8. Compare: "But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in", Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii, line 357.

• “I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “That grave people hate love for the name’s sake;—That selfish people hate it for their own;—Hypocrites for heaven’s;—”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Dear Sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and ’tis thou who lift’st him up to Heaven!—Eternal Fountain of our feelings!”

  Laurence Sterne (1713–1768) said by 1768 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”

  George Mason (1725–1792) said by 1792 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “The soul shrinks From all that it is about to remember, From the punctual rape of every blessed day, And cries, "Oh, let there be nothing on earth but laundry, Nothing but rosy hands in the rising steam And clear dances done in the sight of heaven.”

  Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) said by 2017 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “I'm takin' lives for a great price, I'm the type to snap in heaven with a Mac-11 and rape Christ”

  Big L (1974–1999) said by 1999 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Composer, sculptor, painter, poet, prophet, sage, these are the makers of the after-world, the architects of heaven.”

  James Allen (1864–1912) said by 1912 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”

  Robert Southey (1774–1843) first seen 1800 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Thalaba the Destroyer, Bk. I, st. 1 (1800).

• “Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.”

  Thomas Campbell (poet) first seen 1802 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Lochiel's Warning (1802)

  Also quoted by: Thomas Campbell

• “O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!”

  Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Also quoted by: Thomas Campbell

• “Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art. — Still seem, as to my childhood's sight, A midway station given, For happy spirits to alight, Betwixt the earth and heaven.”

  Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town, Or mirror'd in the ocean vast, A thousand fathoms down! As fresh in yon horizon dark, As young thy beauties seem, As when the eagle from the ark First sported in thy beam. For, faithful to its sacred page, Heaven still rebuilds thy span, Nor lets the type grow pale with age That first spoke peace to man.”

  Thomas Campbell (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “A Persian's heaven is easily made: 'Tis but black eyes and lemonade.”

  Thomas Moore (1779–1852) first seen 1813 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

  Recorded in: Intercepted Letters; or The Two-Penny Post Bag, VI (1813).

• “No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.”

  Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

• “Take all the pleasures of all the spheres, And multiply each through endless years,— One minute of heaven is worth them all.”

  Thomas Moore (1779–1852) said by 1852 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source

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