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Heaven15 quotes
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. — John Lennon · 1971On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard · 1896We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. — Anton Chekhov · 1898Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither. — William Wordsworth · 1807What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain · 1897All 15 quotes →
On Earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard · 1896What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667
Hell2 quotes
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. — John Lennon · 1971The 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. — Mark Twain · 1901
We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds. — Anton Chekhov · 1898Were the happinesse of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1658
Death1 quote
Allow me to depart to the house of the Father. — Pope John Paul II · 2005
Dreams1 quote
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
Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky. — John Lennon · 1971
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. — Mark Twain · 1901
Humor1 quote
The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain · 1897
The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. — Mark Twain · 1897
Life1 quote
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
Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise. — Jesus · 61
The earth1 quote
What if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought? — John Milton · 1667