Famous Quotes & Sayings

Garth Stein

...you have to reach for things beyond your grasp, or what is heaven for

Gail Parent

In heaven, you get right through. In hell, they put you on hold.

Fernando Pessoa

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

Felix Mendelssohn

I know perfectly well that no musician can make his thoughts or his talents different to what Heaven has made them; but I also know that if Heaven had given him good ones, he must also be able to develop them properly.

Henry Miller

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Do not despise your situation; in it you must act, suffer, and conquer. From every point on earth we are equally near to heaven and to the infinite.

Henri Frederic Amiel

From every spot on earth we are equally near heaven and the infinite.

Cassandra Clare

Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.

George Eliot

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

George Eliot

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

George Eliot

Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful.

George Eliot

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

George Eliot

I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines.

Heaven lent you a soul, Earth will lend a grave.

J. C. Ryle

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

J. C. Ryle

Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.

Isaac Watts

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

Isabel Allende

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted.

Jerry Coleman

By comparison, this is heaven. Usually, by June 1st, it was over.

Home is heaven and orgies are vile/ But you need an orgy, once in a while.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever, at any time, has undertaken to build a new heaven has found the strength for it in his own hell...

Friedrich Nietzsche

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

Jennifer Hudson

There's no heaven on earth. God would have to guide her through the problems.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

George William Russell

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

George Whitefield

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

George Sand

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

Jean Reno

There is no heaven on Earth. Not now anyway.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Friedrich Nietzsche

You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

George Berkeley

All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have not any subsistence without a mind.

George Bernard Shaw

Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.