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“I am the unknown Will, The Anger that threatens glory and ruin: Lord of Storms am I, in heaven high and caverns deep. I am the Father of the War, Odin for you, Wotan for him, Wayfarer, Wanderer, beggar, king, numen, genius, strength and ring.”
Artur Balder (born 1984) first seen 2014 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Invocation of the Nordic god Odin, from "Invocations and Oracles", Germanic Appendices, Volume V of the Teutoburg Saga, as quoted in advance posting (30 September 2014)
“What have you seen since last you looked on me?” He said, “Misery and want, and fear, and death. I saw a beggar begging for help from a muddy stream. He told me it was as much use to do that as to beg help of heaven.”
Tanith Lee (1947–2015) said by 2015 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When heaven and earth have passed away, perhaps the conservative mind and the libertarian mind may be joined in synthesis, but not until then.”
Russell Kirk (1918–1994) said by 1994 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For me, nothingness has a charm that the abortions that populate this place could never have and never will have. I thank heaven that I live here; leaving this world doesn't take any effort.”
Albert Caraco (1919–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: L’Âge d’Homme, Lausanne (1985), p. 288
“The most beautiful home on earth is just a dump compared to the magnificent mansion Jesus is building for you up in heaven.”
Jack T. Chick (1924–2016) said by 2016 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But oh! may Earth her dreadful gulf display, And gaping snatch me from the golden day; May I be hurled, by Heaven's almighty fire, Transfixed with thunder, and involved in fire, Down to the shades of Hell, from realms of light, The deep, deep shades of everlasting night.”
Christopher Pitt (1699–1748) said by 1748 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There’s heaven on earth. It just happens to be in the ocean.”
Sylvia Earle (born 1935) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'll wait for all my young people in heaven.”
John Bosco (1815–1888) said by 1888 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As a people, we are fighting to maintain the Heaven-ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race; a white flag would thus be emblematical of our cause.”
William Tappan Thompson (1812–1882) first seen 1863 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Savannah Morning News (23 April 1863), As quoted in Our Flag: Origin and Progress of the Flag of the United States of America (1872), by George Henry Preble, Albany: Joel Munsell, pp. 416–417
“I will never degrade my manhood, and stifle the sympathies of human nature. It is an insult to claim it. I wish I had nothing worse to meet at the judgement day than that. I would not have the guilt of causing that wail of man's despair or that wild shriek of woman's agony, as the one or the other is captured, for all the diadems of all the stars in heaven.”
Owen Lovejoy (1811–1864) first seen 1838 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in His Brother's Blood: Speeches and Writings, 1838–64 (2004), edited by William Frederick Moore and Jane Ann Moore, p. 178
“Ah! who may hope, when Heaven hath Help deni'd!”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On high Backs mounted of the swelling Flood, At Heaven we tilt, then suddenly we fell, Watry Foundations sinking low as Hell.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These Heaven decrees, and ever-fixed Fate. But say, blest prophet, and the truth relate; I see my mother's shade, who not her son Will speak to, nor so much as look upon: Silent she sits by sacred blood: ah, how May she, poor shadow! her dear offspring know?”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) said by 1676 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“It was natural that idealistic people who had ceased to believe in heaven should think up some bright hope for humanity on earth. That, I think, more than any objection to "capitalism", accounts for the spread of the socialist dream, especially in Anglo-Saxon countries.”
Max Eastman (1883–1969) said by 1969 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his time in hell.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 1988 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Jonathon Green (1988), Says who?: a guide to the quotations of the century, p. 176
“The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.”
Alexander Chase (born 1926) first seen 2004 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cited in: Mark Robert Rank (2004), One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All.
“We all love the Heaven”
He Xuntian (born 1952) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nay, it has come to this, that Truth meets no where with stronger opposition, than from many of those that raise the loudest cry about it, and would be taken for no less than the only dispensers of the favors and oracles of Heaven. If any has the firmness to touch the minutest thing that brings them Gain or Credit, he's presently pursued with the hue and cry of Heresy.”
John Toland (1670–1722) said by 1722 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Williamson threw his hands carefully up to heaven and snorted again. Apparently, everything Fay said served to confirm some judgment of mankind on his part.”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You’re sincere enough.” She laughed shortly. “Heaven protect the human race from the sincere idealist!”
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) said by 2008 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Within a temple's towering walls I stand A temple vast; the heaven is its dome: No corniced crag was hewn by human hand, Nor by it wrought this tracery of foam;”
Clara Jessup Moore (1824–1899) said by 1899 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heaven forbid if beauty were to have substance. Genuine beauty is always meaningless, without virtue.”
Osamu Dazai (1909–1948) said by 1948 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was consumed by a sea of people with heaven-bound hands, their eyes full of adoration for the guitar-carrying man on stage who, from his gentle doe eyes to his scraggly brown beard and flowing hair, served as stock-image white Jesus placeholder.”
Chris Stedman (born 1987) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Whoever can feel, the love I do tell, Would take by the heel, poor sinners from hell; As downward they're going, to bring them above; To sing of Christ's dying, a Heaven of love.”
Dorothy Ripley (1767–1832) first seen 1819 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 18
“The spotless maid is like the blooming rose Which on its native stem unsullied grows; Where fencing walls the garden-space surround, Nor swains, nor browsing cattle tread the ground. But if some hand the tender stalk invades, Lost is its beauty, and its colour fades: No more the care of heaven, or garden's boast, And all its praise with youths and maidens lost.”
John Hoole (1727–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The youth, who pants to gain the amorous prize, Forgets that Heaven with all-discerning eyes Surveys the secret heart; and when desire Has, in possession, quenched its short-lived fire, The devious winds aside each promise bear, And scatter all his solemn vows in air!”
John Hoole (1727–1803) said by 1803 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Would Giulio Andreotti have been the true "master" of the P2 Lodge? For heaven's sake... I had the P2, Cossiga the Gladio and Andreotti the Ring.”
Licio Gelli (1919–2015) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Licio Gelli: "Berlusconi un debole, Andreotti a capo dell'Anello e Fini è senza carattere", Oggi.it, 15 February 2011.
“Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.”
Raheel Farooq wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“People think that painting is about color It's mostly composition It's composition that's the whole thing The classic image- Two late Tang dishes, one with a flower image, one empty – the empty form goes all the way to heaven It is the classic form – lighter weight.”
Agnes Martin (1912–2004) said by 2004 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Achilles—bring back the story, Goddess, of the formidable hero descended through Aeacus from thundering Jupiter, but denied His heaven, his deeds indeed famous through Homeric song, but with much more to celebrate.”
Stanley Lombardo (born 1943) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The author of the Gītā is interested in man and his destiny; for man is the centre of creation. Brahman, it is true, dwells equally in every living creature; but to man is given a gift denied even to the Lords of Heaven—man alone in all creation's scale can win release.”
W. Douglas P. Hill (1884–1962) said by 1962 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The Southern emperor rules the Southern land. Our destiny is writ in Heaven's Book. How dare ye bandits trespass on our soil? Ye shall meet your undoing at our hands!”
Lý Thường Kiệt (1019–1105) said by 1105 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Southern emperor rules the Southern land", in An Anthology of Vietnamese Poems, trans. Huỳnh Sanh Thông (Yale University Press, 1996),
“For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in their own beliefs and deservedness. Racists do racist things because they’re certain about their genetic superiority. Religious fanatics blow themselves up and murder dozens of people because they’re certain of their place in heaven as martyrs.”
Mark Manson (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Enduring as heaven and earth—no love however ancient can ever die; Timeless as light and shadow—no debt of breeze and moonlight can ever be repaid.”
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“What follows the way of Heaven prospers and what goes against it perishes.”
Wang Chi-chen (1899–2001) said by 2001 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For long years a bird in a cage Now, flying along with the clouds of heaven.”
Tōyō Eichō (born 1428) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In the countries of the ancient world, even before the formation of the empire, slavery was the basis of society. In each was a capitalist class and a slave class. The capitalists, however, were constantly in fear of slave insurrection. The dread clouded their sunshine by day, and nightmared their sleep; for they saw, piling up against them, a discontent hell-deep and heaven-high.”
Bouck White (1874–1951) said by 1951 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Even if the Heaven and Earth were destroyed, the Universal Reason would still be there.”
Lu Jiuyuan (1139–1193) said by 1193 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Lin Yutang's From Pagan to Christian (1959), p. 107, and in George E. G. Catlin's Rabindranath Tagore (1964), p. 17
“It makes me ashamed as a man, as a citizen, as a Christian, to see the prejudice that is acted against the colored citizens of America because of his colour. As to the substance, the colored man is equal to the white man; he has a like intellect, the same blood courses in their veins; they are both equally the children of a common Father, who is in heaven.”
John Ireland (bishop) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Later, every form of religious belief seemed absurd to me, and death was as if disfigured. [...] Today I would never say: he has gone away. I’ve lost the sense of the crossing over: nothing goes up to heaven, we don’t move to another world, we don’t return, we aren’t reborn. We remain definitively immobile; death is the last point on the segment of life that has chanced to be ours.”
Elena Ferrante (born 1943) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Elena Ferrante: ‘My belief in some kind of beyond, acquired during childhood, has faded’", The Guardian, 10 February 2018.
“Come visit us again and again. This is a state of excitement. But for heaven's sake, don't come here to live.”
Tom McCall (1913–1983) said by 1983 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! [...] Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!”
Pu Songling (1640–1715) said by 1715 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Painted Skin", trans. John Minford in Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin, 2006), p. 521
“On "Heaven Beside You".”
Jerry Cantrell (born 1966) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sing the goodly armes, and that Chieftaine Who great Sepulchre of our Lord did free. Much with his hande, much wrought he with his braine; Much in that glorious conquest suffred hee: And hell in vaine hitselfe opposde, in vaine The mixed troopes Asian and Libick flee To armes, for Heaven him favour'd, and he drew To sacred ensignes his straid mates anew.”
Richard Carew (antiquary) first seen 1594 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Godfrey of Bulloigne, or the Recoverie of Hierusalem. An Heroicall poeme written in Italian by Seig. Torquato Tasso, and translated into English by R. C. [Richard Carew] Esquire: and now the first part containing five c…
“One might even call him dreamy. It was a match made in heaven. Or it could’ve been, until he ghosted me.”
Jacob Tobia (born 1991) first seen 2018 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sissy Diaries: The Harsh Realities of Dating for Gender-Nonconforming Femmes (April 25, 2018).
“Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refined and purged from all its dross, The next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong as passion is, though not so gross: It antedates a glad eternity And is an heaven in epitome.”
Katherine Philips (1632–1664) said by 1664 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I see sounds, I hear sights, I taste smells, I touch not heaven but things from the underworld, things people do not believe exist, whose shapes the world does not suspect.”
Laxmi Prasad Devkota (1909–1959) said by 1959 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Cutting the Spring Breeze Throughout heaven and earth there is not a piece of ground where a single stick could be inserted; I am glad that all things are void, myself and the world: Honored be the sword, three feet long, wielded by the great Yüan swordsmen; For it is like cutting a spring breeze in a flash of lightning.”
Mugaku Sogen (1226–1286) said by 1286 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dumonlin Heinrich, Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Essays in Zen Buddhism, first series. 2000.p. 255
“The Sultan then returned [from Jalor] to Delhi… and after his arrival ‘not a vestige or name remained of idol temples which had raised their heads on high; and the light of faith shone out from the darkness of infidelity… and the moon of religion and the state became resplendent from the heaven of prosperity and glory.”
Iltutmish (1192–1236) said by 1236 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I thank heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defence against the anti-Christ of Communism.”
Frank Buchman (1878–1961) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Interview by William Birnie, New York World-Telegram, 26 August 1936, quoted in: Philip Boobbyer, The Spiritual Vision of Frank Buchman, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013, p. 137.