Francis Beaumont Quotes

In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?

The self holds both a hell and a heaven.

A match made in heaven set the fires in hell.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub.

I was initially planning to write about grief in terms of Eurydice and the myth thereof. By that point the overall metaphor of height and depth and flat and falling and rising was coming into being in my mind.

If one could rise to heaven, there would not be any people on earth.

In my mind, we live in Heaven, and we live in Hell.

If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heaven. No more damned magic.

Form and Substance are opposite ends of the same coin.

Beholding heaven, and feeling hell.

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?

She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.

All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

There may be a heaven, but if Joan Crawford is there, I'm not going.

Men have feverishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell to find it ridiculous.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

The truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.

May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.

You can't have good without evil, pleasure without pain, and so on.