“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
To his receptionist after being arrested.
“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven? Would it be the same If I saw you in heaven?”
Eric Clapton (1945) English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
Tears in Heaven (from the album Unplugged - 1992)
“I did think I did see all heaven before me, and the great God himself.”
George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) German, later British Baroque composer
Horatio Townsend An Account of the Visit of Handel to Dublin (1852) p. 93, citing Laetitia Matilda Hawkins Anecdotes, Biographical Sketches and Memoirs vol. 1 (1822).
His reply on being asked what his feelings were while writing the "Hallelujah Chorus".
“When I see young people such as those of our day, I think that Heaven wishes to destroy the world.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
the happening world (6) "Street Seen"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)