“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
God Knows (1984)
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
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
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
20 December 1822
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
“Let this hell be our heaven.”
Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come
Source: What Dreams May Come
“Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.”
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
“As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.”
John Fletcher The Honest Man's Fortune
Act IV, scene 1.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)