“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”
Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)
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“…to emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.”
Tom Robbins Skinny Legs and All
Variant: To concentrate on heaven is to create hell.
Source: Skinny Legs and All (1990)
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Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
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“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet
“Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.”
Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes
Variant: Life moves very fast. It rushes us from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Source: Eleven Minutes (2003), p. 9.
Context: When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a matter of seconds.
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
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Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
Context: We take all the telescopes
And we turn them inside out
And we point them away from the big sky.
Put your eye right up to the glass.
Here we'll find the constellation of the heart.
Steer your life by these stars
On the unconditional chance
'Tis here where Hell and Heaven dance.
This is the constellation of the heart.