John Milton book Paradise Lost
i.254-255
Paradise Lost (1667)
Variant: The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n.
Source: Paradise Lost: Books 1-2
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
20 December 1822
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
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American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803–1882Related quotes
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John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
“Can Hell and Heaven be merely the difference between ignorance and knowledge?”
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 16 (p. 158)
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Part Three, Ch. 11
Source: On the Road (1957)
Context: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
“The human heart is an egg; and out of it are hatched this world and heaven and hell.”
Frank Crane (1861–1928) American Presbyterian minister
Four Minute Essays Vol. 5 (1919), The Human Heart
