Like ships that have gone down at sea, when heaven was all tranquillity.
Thomas Moore

That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
John Updike

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
John Milton

Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton

The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.
John Milton

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge

God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda Marcos

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.
H. P. Lovecraft

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
John Donne

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.
Douglas Horton

If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
Douglas Horton

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
Douglas Horton

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel De Cervantes

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.
David Hume

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God. Our fight now is against the Americans.
Osama bin Laden

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
Samuel Butler

Marriage is distinctly and repeatedly excluded from heaven. Is this because it is thought likely to mar the general felicity?
Samuel Butler

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Peter Tosh