“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
History of the Church, 5:517 (23 July 1843)
1840s
“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
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
1773
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Life of Johnson (Boswell)
Fiona Apple (1977) singer-songwriter, musician
On Shadowboxer from Tidal,
from Nuvo, "Fiona Apple: The NUVO Interview" April [1997]
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
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
"Never Go Hungry"
Song lyrics, Nobody's Daughter (2010)
Bert McCracken (1982) American musician
Kelly Osbourne, in Harry Shaw, Bruce Kavanagh (2004) The Osbournes "Talking": The Osbournes in Their Own Words, Omnibus Press, ISBN 1844494047, p. 76.
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Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
1890s and attributed from posthumous publications
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde) <br class="br">Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008. <br class="br">Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed. <br class="br">Disputed