Status Updates From The Great Divorce

What's the trouble about this place? Not that people are quarrelsome — that's only human nature …The trouble is they have no Needs. You get everything you want…by just imagining it…there's no proper economic basis for any community life. If they needed real shops, chaps would have to stay near where the real shops were...It's scarcity that enables a society to exist.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell: and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.