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15 quotes

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Song · Pop music

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

Imagine · 1971

★ 9.7

Personal journal

On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.

1896

★ 6.9

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Uncle Vanya · 1898

★ 6.2

Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither.

William Wordsworth

Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollection of Early Childhood · 1807

★ 5.3

Poem · Epic poem · Religious literature

What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Paradise Lost · 1667

★ 3.9

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

Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World · 1897

★ 3.9

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society.

1901

★ 3.7

Personal journal

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found the flower in his hand when he awoke-Aye! and what then?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1816

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

Luke 23:43 · 61

★ 3.5

Scripture · Religious literature

In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

John 14:2-3 · 90

★ 2.0

O what their joy and glory must be, Those endless sabbaths the blessed ones see!

1142

★ 2.0

Allow me to depart to the house of the Father.

Pope John Paul II

2005

★ 2.0

Scripture · Religious literature

The street of the city was pure gold.

Revelation 21:21

96

★ 1.9

Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.

Sir Thomas Browne

1658

★ 1.9

To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome.

G.K. Chesterton

1916

★ 1.9