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Quotations about heaven

Stephen HawkingI have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first... I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

 - Stephen Hawking

Tags:   afterlife  death  fear  heaven  

Pearl BuckI feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

 - Pearl S. Buck

Tags:   faith  heaven  kindness  

Michel de MontaigneThere are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

 - Michel de Montaigne

Tags:   heaven  wit  

Lao TzuThere is a thing inherent and natural,
Which existed before heaven and earth.
Motionless and fathomless,
It stands alone and never changes;
It pervades everywhere and never becomes exhausted.
It may be regarded as the Mother of the Universe.
I do not know its name. If I am forced to give it a name, I call it Tao, and I name it as supreme.

 - Laozi / Lao-Tzu

Tags:   earth  heaven  Tao  universe  

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.

 - William Congreve

Tags:   fury  heaven  hell  women  

Carl SaganWe've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

 - Carl Sagan

Tags:   heaven  hell  kings  politics  

Carrie FisherI heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes -- I hear angels sing.

 - Carrie Fisher

Tags:   heaven  hell  hope