Mark Twain Quotes

Communism only works in Heaven, where they don’t need it, and in hell, where they’ve already got it.

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Utopias are boring. Distopias on the other hand, are interesting.

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

I'd walked too close to heaven and gotten a glimpse. The hell I'd lived before her no longer appealed to me.

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us there is no elsewhere.

I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

Your so-called religions have made you very tense. Because they have created guilt in you. My effort here is to help you get rid of all guilt and all fear. I would like to tell you: there is no hell and no heaven. So don't be afraid of hell and don't be greedy for heaven. All that exists is this moment. You can make this moment a hell or a heaven - that certainly is possible - but there is no heaven or hell somewhere else. Hell is when you are all tense, and heaven is when you are all relaxed. Total relaxation is paradise.

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.

There's a heaven on earth that so few ever find, though the map's in your soul and the road's in your mind

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

Paradise does not exist, but we must nonetheless strive to be worthy of it.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, "Where is the best place to go to?" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society.

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

America was, to them, the place that good people went to when they died. They were prepared to believe just about anything could happen in America.

And in that Heaven of all their wish, there shall be no more land, say fish

Heaven is totally overrated. It seems boring. Clouds, listening to people play the harp. It should be somewhere you can't wait to go, like a luxury hotel. Maybe blue skies and soft music were enough to keep people in line in the 17th century, but heaven has to step it up a bit. They're basically getting by because they only have to be better than hell.

Hell is gone and heaven's here,there's nothing left for you to fear.

Maybe life on earth could be heaven, doesn't just the thought of it make it worth a try?