“If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic.”
Source: Wide Sargasso Sea
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Jean Rhys 38
novelist from Dominica 1890–1979Related quotes
“Do something, by God's help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.”
Source: Old Paths (1878), Ch. II: "Our Souls", p. 62
“Damn me to hell or take me to heaven, but for Gods sake, do it now….”
Source: The Stanislaski Brothers: Mikhail and Alex
As quoted in Philosophy on the Go (2007) by Joey Green, p. 222
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Source: The Brotherhood of the Grape (1977)
Context: Nobody crossed him without a battle. He disliked almost everything, particularly his wife, his children, his neighbors, his church, his priest, his town, his state, his country, and the country from which he emigrated. Nor did he give a damn for the world either, or the sun or the stars, or the universe, or heaven or hell. But he liked women.
“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.”
