“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
The Tale of Taleisin
Context: I was with my king
In the heavens
When Lucifer fell
Into the deepest hell.
I carried the banner
Before Alexander.
I know the names of the stars
From the North to the South.
“Will smiled the way Lucifer might have smiled, moments before he fell from Heaven.”
Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
Michael Moorcock book The War Hound and the World's Pain
Source: The War Hound and the World's Pain (1981), Chapter 3 (p. 42)
“When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Variant: When I die I hope to go to heaven--whatever that is--and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
Source: Atlas Shrugged
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 10: "Solemn Thoughts of God and Death".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
The Everlasting Gospel (c. 1818)
Context: The vision of Christ that thou dost see
Is my vision's greatest enemy.
Thine has a great hook nose like thine;
Mine has a snub nose like to mine.
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind;
Mine speaks in parables to the blind.
Thine loves the same world that mine hates;
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates.
“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”
Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
Voces (1943)
George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne (1666–1735) 1st Baron Lansdowne
She-Gallants; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), "Women", p. 886-97.