317 quotes found
“Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.”
“One nice thing about heaven is that you can relive all your favorite moments and memories pretty much as many times as you wantsort of like a DVD of your whole life. Pause, rewind, fast-forward, sl...”
“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of ...”
“Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground”
“Heaven might shine bright, but so do flames.”
“All the way to heaven is heaven, because Jesus said, "I am the way.”
“All that damn therapy you made me go through and sometimes, Dad, it takes going through hell to reach your heaven. I looked at the door. That bad huh? What? You like her that much? No. I swallowed...”
“No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?”
“She sealed his lips with a wanton kiss; 'Though I forgive your breaking your vows to heaven, I expect you to keep your vows to me.”
“I hoped he'd take his dog and drive down to the ocean. I hoped there was still time. I pictured him sitting on the gray rocks with the waves crashing and spraying white foam. Maybe he'd hear someth...”
“I don't really like this song," Emma had said."You told me it was your favourite.""It's beautiful. But it always makes me sad.""Why, love?" he'd asked gently. "It's about finding each other again. ...”
“I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a bad one. What, after all, is the measure of difference? The good guy may be 65 per cent good and 35...”
“In eternity this world will be like Troy, I believe, and all that has passed here will be the epic of the universe, the ballad they sing in the streets.”
“Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a persons nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves, emotional illiterates and those of righteous envy, who, in their...”
“Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.”
“Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else.”
“Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you...God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its fi...”
“I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.”
“To what end, he wondered, had the Divine created the stars in heaven to fill a man with feelings of inspiration one day and insignificance the next?”
“It may be possible for each to think too much of his own potential glory hereafter; it is hardly possible for him to think too often or too deeply about that of his neighbor. The load, or weight, o...”
