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It is better to reenter hell and become an angel, than to remain in heaven and become a demon.


Victor Hugo

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C.S. LEWIS There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torm...
ISAAC ASIMOV Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад...
ELIF SHAFAK Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
JOHN MILTON When we tell little white lies, we become progressively color-blind. It is better to remain silent t...
JAMES E. FAUST Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.
JOHN MILTON The specific 'heaven' you 'go to' is built upon what you believe and the hell you can descend to is ...
ALAN B JONES Do all things possible to be recognized by Heaven, for that is the true noble thing!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA 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 I am Angel. I am demon. I am woman. I am heaven and hell rolled into one.
Kiss me passionately,...
VIRGINA ALISON Embarrassment has helped mankind to live together and become better human being, by us avoiding it. ...
WOHI PURANA I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose
ELINOR WYLIE It's good to be vanished and remembered than to remain and become forgetful.
XAINEE After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
E.M. FORSTER The power to become a better lover is by understanding that it takes more than money to become one.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi...
GARY RUDZ Maybe some days he actually believes he was an angel of mercy. Let us correct that: He was a demon f...
DOLORES STASIENKO My biggest regret shall be never going to Heaven
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Tabahlah saat menghadapi penderitaan besar,
Sabarlah saat menghadapi penderitaan kecil,
Da...
VICTOR HUGO La pensée est le labeur de l’intelligence, la rêverie en est la volupté.
VICTOR HUGO N'être pas écouté, n'est pas une raison pour se taire.
[VICTOR HUGO] L’amour est une mer dont le femme est la rive.
VICTOR HUGO Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer...
SUZY KASSEM In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN People become more ignorant when it comes to religion.
DANIEL MELGAçO We cannot live better than in seeking to become better.
SOCRATES It is an extremely precarious situation, and we remain worried, ... The situation is preoccupying an...
JAKOB KELLENBERGER There is no better time to become known than in the time of crisis and instability
SUNDAY ADELAJA In ancient times, being faithless is better than being unfaithful. But for today and tomorrow; they'...
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to b...
PAT CONROY You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a consta...
THOMAS KEMPIS You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a consta...
THOMAS À KEMPIS And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't e...
JAMES MERRILL Work like an angel, dress like a demon, live like a ghost, and dream like a human.
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PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends, for one of our friends will certai...
BIAS OF PRIENE This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heav...
HENRY CABOT LODGE, JR. This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
TINA TURNER The role of the Christian is to let other people know what Jesus has done, not to think of themselve...
LEWIS N. ROE Heaven is the gateway to hell, and hell is also the gateway to heaven.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imaginat...
JAMES WELCH Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we...
PAULO COELHO The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in Hell than serve in H...
C.S. LEWIS To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is ...
C.S. LEWIS Work harder than expected to become better than projected.
JOEL ANDERSEN I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.
PAT BUCKLEY The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than w...
CARROLL BRYANT We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like Go...
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EPHDAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY It is good to have some friends both in heaven and hell.
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BUDDHA BUDDHA The mind is its own place, and in itself can make 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..
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PHILIP YANCEY The world you are in –
Is the true hell.
The journey to Truth itself
Is what quicke...
SUZY KASSEM Finding something like that in a war is like finding an angel in hell so i kept it with me
NICHOLAS SPARKS Don’t just make a name for yourself on earth; let your name be written in the book of life in Heav...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Men should be saying I want to become a woman. The world would be a far better place if more men wan...
ALBERT HALSEY Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
MUNIA KHAN Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to t...
JACK KORNFIELD Time is the most valuable thing on earth: time to think, time to act, time to extend our fraternal r...
SAMUEL GOMPERS LIFE IS LIKE A JOURNEY TO HEAVEN AND HELL.
BRIGHT OWUSU AMPONSAH Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and pro...
SAMUEL BUTLER To become something else is better that to become nothing at all.
WISDOM ATTAH ELORM Hell will be Heaven with Friends, Heaven will be Hell without them.
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RACHEL NICHOLS Our city is changing, faster now than ever before, and in order to keep up with it, we'll have to ch...
VERONICA ROTH If you truly loved someone you won't become their enemy. You will become their guardian angel.
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AARON BADDELEY The book the reader has now before his eyes - from one end to the other, in its whole and in its det...
VICTOR HUGO No queda más remedio: tienen que existir quienes rezan siempre por quienes no rezan nunca
VICTOR HUGO Je vois de la lumière neuve
(I see a new light)
VICTOR HUGO Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the wor...
VICTOR HUGO Querer prohibir a la imaginación que vuelva a una idea es lo mismo que prohibir al mar que vuelva a...
VICTOR HUGO While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemn...
VICTOR HUGO All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
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