Heaven Quotes

I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles. (Niccolò Machiavelli)
The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven. View quote
Mark Twain
This country ... abounds in that Cuba is a heaven in the spiritual sense of the word, and we prefer to die in heaven than serve in hell. View quote
Fidel Castro
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? View quote
Robert Browning
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell. View quote
George Orwell
Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I looked at my hands, to see if I was the same person now that I was free. There was such a glory over everything the sun came like gold through the trees, and over de fields, and I felt like I was in heaven. View quote
Harriet Tubman
You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular. (George Bernard Shaw)
there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. View quote
Dale Carnegie
To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour. View quote
William Blake
They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning. View quote
Clint Eastwood
God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. View quote
Izaak Walton
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
How we behave toward cats here below determines our status in heaven. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Heaven is not a place, and it's not a time. Heaven is being perfect. View quote
Richard Bach
But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved. View quote
Lafcadio Hearn
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. View quote
Isaac Asimov
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. (William Congreve)
Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair. View quote
William Blake
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. View quote
Michelangelo
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes