“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: What Dreams May Come
“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
Jean Rhys book Wide Sargasso Sea
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner
Beyers Naudé memorial lecture (15 August 2003)
“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
“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”
Margaret Atwood (1939) Canadian writer
Source: The Tent
“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)