Quotes about heaven
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“A piece of heaven?" I managed to ask.
He slowly shook his head. "No. The other place. The one I'm going to burn in for thinking what I'm thinking.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“I call it God Light, because it reminds me of heaven. Every time the light shines through the window we built or any window at all, you'll know I'm right there with you, okay? That's going to be me. I'll be the light in the window.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Last Song

Source: The Last Song

God, Light, Time

“We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.”

Desmond Tutu (1931) South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Prize winner

As quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255

God, People

“If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

Source: Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be left waiting for us in our graves-or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Dreams, Waiting

“I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Love, Hope, Bird

“Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Report to Greco

"Italy", Ch. 18, p. 182
Source: Report to Greco (1965)

Happiness, Bird

“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

Hell, Falseness

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

Hugh Nibley (1910–2005) Religious scholar

Knowledge

“If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

“This is Ian. He's no' usually speechless. Or so well dressed."
-Conner
I shouldna wear my best clothes to meet an angel from heaven?"
-Ian
"You look very nice, I love your shirt."
-Marielle
"Thank you"
-Ian
"I have a shirt like that, too."
-Conner”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: Vampire Mine

Love, Angels, Clothes

“Instead of finding himself in nerd heaven—where every nerd gets fifty-eight virgins to role-play with—he woke up in Robert Wood Johnson with two broken legs and a separated shoulder, feeling like, well, he'd jumped off the New Brunswick train bridge.”

Junot Díaz (1968) Dominican-American writer

Feeling, Training

“To the heavens on the wings of a pig.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.”

Joseph Conrad book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

Soul, Madness

“Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

Hell

“Each of us was in your life for a reason. You may not have known the reason at the time, and that is what heaven is for. For understanding your life on earth.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Life, Understanding, Time

“Even trees understand me! Good heavens, I lie under
them, too, don't I? I'm just like a pile of leaves.”

Frank O'Hara book Meditations in an Emergency (book)

Source: Meditations in an Emergency

Lie, Understanding, Tree

“And somewhere in heaven, Versace sheds a single, perfect tear.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

Tear, Perfection

“When heaven joins the battle against you, who could stand?”

Stephen R. Lawhead book Hood

Source: Hood

“Now she and I sit together in her room and eat chocolate, and I tell her that in a very long time when we both to go heaven, we should try to get chairs next to each other, close to the dessert table.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith

Time

“It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

Bird, Wine

“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)

Feeling, Hell

“If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.”

Lurlene McDaniel (1944) American writer

Source: Don't Die, My Love

Wedding, Waiting

“People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn’t know why he couldn’t. He didn’t know why he didn’t even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, People, Hell, Chance

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it.”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

Way

“When I was young, I asked my priest how to get to heaven and still protect yourself from all the evil in the world. He told me what God told His children;'You are sheep among wolves, be wise as the serpent, yet innocent as doves.”

Dennis Lehane book Gone, Baby, Gone

Source: Gone, Baby, Gone

God, Children, World, Evil

“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

Hell

“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Marriage Plot

Source: The Marriage Plot

People, Faith

“They claim their labours are to build a heaven yet their heaven is populated with horrors. Perhaps the world is not made. Perhaps nothing is made. A clock without a craftsman. It's too late. Always has been, always will be…too late.”

Alan Moore book Watchmen

Source: Watchmen

World

“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”

Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer

“Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Life, Error, Spring, Mathematics

“No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

Love, Hell

“Because that's what heaven is… it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.”

Justin Cronin book The Twelve

Source: The Twelve

Love, Housing

“Earth's crammed with heaven…
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Aurora Leigh

Source: Aurora Leigh

Shoe

“If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.”

Billy Joel (1949) American singer-songwriter and pianist

“In Heaven, it is always Autumn".”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

Autumn

“We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.”

Lucy Mack Smith (1775–1856) American religious leader

“To some people
Love is given,
To others
Only Heaven.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

Source: The Collected Poems

Love, People

“Zach had rushed down to rescue me without remembering to put a shirt on… Maybe I had died and gone to heaven.”

Meg Cabot Jinx

Source: Jinx

“There’s too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that’s what heaven is---- a place where everybody’s happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

Love, Happiness, World, Thinking

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

God

“Piece of Heaven?"

"No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Thinking

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Feeling, Hell, Help, Dead

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Life, Death, Hell, Understanding

“For our people, butterflies are a symbol of hope. It's said that if you capture one in your hands and whisper your dreams to it, it will carry them up to the heavens so that the wish can be granted.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

People, Dreams, Hope

“God is obviouslt God, and Heaven obviously exsists, and every word spoken here on earth turns heads up there.”

Ted Dekker (1962) American writer

God

“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life, God, World, Soul

“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

Hell, Hurt

“Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets. I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen yet, and that Camilla, she can have her Sammy in the desert, with his cheap short stories and stinking prose, but wait until she has a taste of me, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust (1939)

God, Angels, Waiting

“Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.”

Robert A. Heinlein book Stranger in a Strange Land

Source: Stranger in a Strange Land

Happiness, Spring

“… Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“Agad bowed to the Fairy Queen. 'You are most wise, your majesty. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

Imagination, Hell

“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”

Christina Baker Kline (1964) American writer

Source: Orphan Train

Thinking, Memory

“Oh yes, I know the way to heaven was easy. We found the little kingdom of our passion that all can share who walk the road of lovers. In wild and secret happiness we stumbled; and gods and demons clamoured in our senses.”

Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) English poet, diarist and memoirist

Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen

God, Happiness, Secret, Way

“My parabatai, he loved like few ever could love, with all and everything. I see you are like that too; it burns more brightly in you than the fire of Heaven.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Love

“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Books, Appearance

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love, Travel, Hell

“All Heaven and Earth
Flowered white obliterate…
Snow… unceasing snow”

Bashō Matsuo (1644–1694) Japanese poet

Source: Japanese Haiku

Flowers

“One day if I do go to heaven… I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google <br class="br">Attributed <br class="br">Context: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

“Sexual union is a holy moment in which a part of Heaven flows into the Earth.”

James Redfield book The Celestine Prophecy

Source: The Celestine Prophecy

Parting

“Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.”

Northrop Frye (1912–1991) Canadian literary critic and literary theorist

Source: The Educated Imagination

Imagination, Cats, Literature, Hell

“You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

Jimi Hendrix (1942–1970) American musician, singer and songwriter

“If there is a heaven, we will find each other again, for there is no heaven without you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

PLEASE DONT BELIEVE IN PAGE NUMBER THEY ARE WRONG I TRIED TO FIND QUOTES BUT THEY ARE NOT TTHERE FUCK THIS SHIT, 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013), Ira Levinson, Chapter 28 Ira, p. 341

“It's settled, then," Grace said. She turned back to Nick. "Take the Jag to the car wash and for heaven's sake clean the McDonald's Happy Meal boxes out of it."

"Hey," Nick said, his face offended. "That's a low blow. Those boxes are collectibles.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Happiness, Cars, Box

“Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
"Poem on His Birthday”

Dylan Thomas (1914–1953) Welsh poet and writer

Way, Birthday, Light

“In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.”

Neal A. Maxwell (1926–2004) Mormon leader

God

“Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth. Mrs Miracle”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

Marriage

“Some marriages are made in heaven,
Mine was made in Hong Kong, by the same people who make those little rubber pork chops they sell in the pet department at Kmart.”

Tom Robbins (1932) American writer

Marriage, People

“Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.”

Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter

“AND what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
And over it softly her warm ear lays;
Whether we look, or whether we listen,
We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;”

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat

Life, Perfection

“People often belittle the place where they were born but heaven can be found in the most unlikely places.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003)
Context: "Ah." The Blue Man nodded. "Well people often belittle the place where they were born. But heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners. And heaven itself has many steps. This, for me, is the second. And for you the first."

People