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Quotes About Heaven

Come back to me, Tessa. Henry said that perhaps, since you had touched the soul of an angel, that you dream of Heaven now, of fields of angels and flowers of fire. Perhaps you are happy in those dreams. But I ask this out of pure selfishness. Come back to me. For I cannot bear to lose all my heart.
~ Cassandra Clare
Hell is cold. Do you remember when you told me that? We were in the cellars of the Dark House. Anyone else would have been panicking, but you were as calm as a governess, telling me Hell was covered in ice. If it is the fire of Heaven that takes you from me, what a cruel irony that would be.
~ Cassandra Clare
You bled on the Speaking stars ...I bet there's a law somewhere about that.
~ Cassandra Clare
The blood of Heaven binds you," said the Queen. "Blood calls to blood, under the skin. But love and blood are not the same." "Riddles," Clary said angrily. "Do you even mean anything when you talk like that?" "He is bound to you," said the Queen. "But does he love you?
~ Cassandra Clare
That was the justice of Heaven. I trust that you are not dismayed.
~ Cassandra Clare
The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the radiant pale blue of a sky slipping toward evening in Heaven, when angels who had been sweet all day found themselves tempted to sin.
~ Cassandra Clare
Meat broth? In heaven there were supposed to be angel wings, glorious songs of praise, streets lined in gold, and fluffy pink clouds.
~ Catherine Anderson
The closer you get to heaven, the less air there is, because when you get to heaven for real, you don't need to breathe anymore.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Damn shame to have to go to heaven and tell Saint Peter you forgot to live while you had the chance.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Oh, Marya Morevna! Do you know how the church-folk call me, me and my daughter Gamayun, when they paint us on their ceilings? They call us archangels, and say that we live in heaven, where no vine of sorrow or memory grows. That is where I sent you, not to heaven—tscha! I know nothing of that place. But to a place like the ceiling of a church.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
All this is true and certain. But what I do not know is this: which home welcomed him, at the end. Whichever it was—the celestial English heaven of seraphim, cherubim and ophanim, or Kietan's warm and fertile place away in the southwest, I believe that his song was powerful enough for Joel to hear and to follow him there.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Surrender to God is the only absolute power that the creature possesses. Only the handmaid of the Lord is the Queen of Heaven.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
Gerechtigkeit ist nur in der Hölle, im Himmel ist Gnade, und auf Erden ist das Kreuz.
~ Gertrud von Le Fort
E tu pur volgi Dai miseri lo sguardo ; e tu, sdegnando Le sciagure e gli affani, alla reina Felicita servi, o natura. In cielo, In terra amico agl'infelici alcuno E rifugio non resta altro che il ferro. Mais toi aussi tu détournes Tes yeux des malheureux, ô nature, Méprisant les disgrâces, les peines, Tu ne sers que le bonheur, ce souverain. Dans le ciel, sur la terre, il n'est au malheureux D'autre ami, d'autre refuge, que le fer. (La vita solitaria, la vie solitaire)
~ Giacomo Leopardi
No one could ever create the Heaven and the Earth. He is the only one who has done so. The great God of all Creation.
~ Gift Gugu Mona
The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden heaven is a playground.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Heaven makes you family, but a new generation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors can make you friends.
~ Gina Barreca
We are meant to discover that we are powerful creators, if not of our entire reality, at least of our experience of reality. We aren't responsible for what each moment holds, but we are responsible for our experience of each moment because we have the power to make any moment heaven or hell.
~ Gina Lake
Credidit ut Clmabos picturæ castra tenere Sic tenuit vivens, nunc tenet astra poli.
~ Giorgio Vasari
of the celestial bodies, or sent upon us mortals by God
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.
~ Giovanni Boccaccio
here be said save that even in poor cottages there rain down divine spirits from heaven, like as in princely palaces there be those who were worthier to tend swine than to have lordship over men?
~ Giovanni Boccaccio