“Heaven is a despotism. I shall be at home there.”
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“I shall send people to urge them to return home.”
Dong Fuxiang (1839–1908) Chinese general
Familiar strangers: a history of Muslims in Northwest China, Jonathan Neaman Lipman, 2004, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 157, 0-295-97644-6, 2010-06-28 http://books.google.com/books?id=90CN0vtxdY0C&pg=PA157&dq=Fuxiang+said,+%22I+shall+send+people+to+urge+them&hl=en&ei=cceaTOXCKYT48Aa2xa1S&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA#v=snippet&q=%22I%20shall%20send%20people%20to%20urge%20them%20to%20return%20home&f=false,
“Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Abbey's Road (1979)
Andrew Jackson (1767–1845) American general and politician, 7th president of the United States
Last recorded words, to his grand-children and his servants, as quoted in The National Preacher (1845) by Austin Dickinson, p. 192.
“A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 28
Context: To this our Lord answered in this manner: A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.
John Brunner book Stand on Zanzibar
the happening world (6) "Street Seen"
Stand on Zanzibar (1968)
Thomas Hardy book Far from the Madding Crowd
Source: Far from the Madding Crowd (1874), Ch. 4 (Gabriel Oak, proposing to Bathsheba Everdene)
“My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”
Billy Graham (1918–2018) American Christian evangelist