“A sexy woman is heaven to behold, but hell to live.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Una donna sexy è il paradiso da vedere, ma un inferno da vivere.
Source: prevale.net
Lalla Rookh http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00generallinks/lallarookh/index.html (1817), Part V-VIII: The Fire-Worshippers
“A sexy woman is heaven to behold, but hell to live.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) Una donna sexy è il paradiso da vedere, ma un inferno da vivere.
Source: prevale.net
“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
Chuck Palahniuk book Damned
Variant: No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
Source: Damned (2011)
“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
“Let this hell be our heaven.”
Richard Matheson book What Dreams May Come
Source: What Dreams May Come
“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)
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