“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
Source: Wishful Drinking
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Carrie Fisher 49
American actress, screenwriter and novelist 1956–2016Related quotes
“Mind can make a hell of heaven. Or a heaven of hell.”
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
The Four Loves (1960)
Context: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside of Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
“I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.”
“Sometimes you've got to go through hell to get to heaven.”
Source: Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner
“Howling in the shadows,
living in a lunar spell,
he finds his heaven,
spewing from the mouth of hell.”
Bark at the Moon, written by Ozzy Osbourne
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)
“But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?”
Source: Coraline (2002)
