After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
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Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
JOHN MILTON It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.
VICTOR HUGO i believe in love. lust. sex. romance. i don't want everything to add up to the perfect equation...i...
NOT REAL I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose
ELINOR WYLIE I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' a...
ETHAN CANIN As E.M. Forster so brilliantly put it, 'It is difficult, after accepting six cups of tea, to throw t...
CAROLYN HEILBRUN Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no...
CARLTON D. PEARSON Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
Better ...
JOHN MILTON Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reig...
JOHN MILTON It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno...
BUDDHA It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It canno...
BUDDHA BUDDHA Oh, I was not made for heaven. No, I don't want to go to heaven. Hell is much better. Think of all t...
FREDDIE MERCURY The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV Hell is a state of mind - ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every...
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ANTHONY BURGESS The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
JOHN MILTON Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven
JOHN MILTON The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between h...
DAVE HUNT Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward rese...
BILL HYBELS If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in H...
C.S. LEWIS A sure sign of a soul-based workplace is excitement, enthusiasm, real passion; not manufactured pass...
DAVID WHYTE Heaven is the gateway to hell, and hell is also the gateway to heaven.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool
YIDDISH PROVERB When all the world dissolves, / And every creature shall be purified, / All place shall be hell that...
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.
PLAUTUS Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.
EMILY DICKINSON Hell is not punishment, neither is heaven reward, it is consequence
ONWUKA EMEKA Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM We hope a better way will lead us to more happiness, while we would be more successful if we, first,...
LAURA TERESA MARQUEZ O what a heaven is love! O what a hell!
THOMAS DEKKER For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.
NORA ROBERTS Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
UMBERTO ECO LIFE IS LIKE A JOURNEY TO HEAVEN AND HELL.
BRIGHT OWUSU AMPONSAH It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter he...
JOSH BILLINGS Parting is all we know of Heaven,
and all we need of Hell.
EMILY DICKINSON If there is a heaven and hell, then I wonder, are the people in heaven asking god to forgive and sto...
JASON BOURKE Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY A bad day for Hell is a good day for Heaven.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO 10 square meters of heaven is worth far more than 100 square meters of hell.
KHANG KIJARRO NGUYEN There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Heaven without love : what a hell.
CHARLES DE LEUSSE [C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
STEPHEN LEVINE Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS Life is exactly what you make it; it can be a heaven or hell; it's all up to you.
STEVEN REDHEAD This is a huge win. 2-0 is a hell of a lot better than 1-1.
CASEY SCHLOCK To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
J. B. PRIESTLEY To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
JOSEPH PRIESTLEY Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад...
ELIF SHAFAK That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held...
JOHN UPDIKE The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again afte...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again afte...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually clo...
JOHN MCGAHERN What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
MARK TWAIN That is heaven, this is hell.
CARLO BELLONI Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
AMAN JASSAL The role of the
Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to
think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Here at last
We shall be free;
the Almighty hath not built
Here for his envy, will not driv...
JOHN MILTON An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
VICTOR HUGO It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-c...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not suppose...
J.M. REDMANN I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R. A. TORREY I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
R.A. TORREY E.M. Ashford: And death shall be no more" comma "death, thou shalt die." Nothing but a breath, a com...
MARGARET EBSON I'm proof that, even after having a baby, you can look better and sexier than ever!
KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.
UMBERTO ECO Even heaven is hell without you.
JEFF THOMAS Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.
STEVEN REDHEAD Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)...
JAMES JOYCE The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are g...
ANTHONY STORR Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin a...
ROBERT C. SHANNON Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
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E. M. FORSTER America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be inter...
E. M. FORSTER There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one d...
E. M. FORSTER Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who ...
E. M. FORSTER Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both wil...
E. M. FORSTER Towns are excrescences, gray fluxions, where men, hurrying to find one another, have lost themselves...
E. M. FORSTER I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people...
E. M. FORSTER Ideas are fatal to caste.
E. M. FORSTER Art for art's sake? I should think so, and more so than ever at the present time. It is the one orde...
E. M. FORSTER Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wr...
E. M. FORSTER As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through e...
E. M. FORSTER Oxford is -- Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates t...
E. M. FORSTER Lord I disbelieve -- help thou my unbelief.
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