Hell Quotes
Peter Ustinov
I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.
1050 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
3720 Bill Hicks
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.
1389 Charles Bukowski
girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them
besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me
and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out
but not
in
mine
than
3978 Aaron B. Powell
The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell.
1894 Terry Pratchett
... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...
2775 Carl Sandburg
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
3507 Ben Jonson
Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
4361 Jonathan Yanez
Pain, sorrow, anger, these are all powerful emotions. Allowed to rule and left unchecked, they would destroy you. However, through training and willpower you can choose to harness those feelings and use them for something great.
3863 Oscar Wilde
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
2200 Dave Hunt
The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.
1279 George Carlin
So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.
2017 Jodi Picoult
When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires
1328 Omar Khayyam
Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!
One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;
One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.
4276 Alysha Speer
Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
4725 Andy Warhol
I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'.
3358 Clarence Darrow
Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.
2423 Francis Chan
Jesus didn't speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are.
4133 Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!
2271 Peter Kreeft
Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked.
3410 Elizabeth Gilbert
I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since heaven and hell - the destinations - are the same thing anyway?"
"Same - same," he said. "Same in end, so better to be happy on journey."
I said, "So, if heaven is love, then hell is..."
"Love, too," he said.
3760 Sandra Chami Kassis
People often speak of hell, not wanting to go there, avoiding it..etc. I never had that problem because hell is a state of mind. Look around you; rape, murder, wars, hatred, envy...my friend; you're already there!!
3877 Steven L. Peck
[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive.
1519 E.M. Forster
After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?
4939 Toba Beta
When you've succeeded, you'd say:
'Indeed I'd to go through those hell
before fit into all of this happiness.
3330 Sylvia Plath
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.
2274 Susan Beth Pfeffer
But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.
2007 Anne Rice
Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell.
2038 Paulo Coelho
They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existence, and out of that moment, heaven or hell is born.
1154 Frankie Boyle
For 3 million you could give everyone in Scotland a shovel, and we could dig a hole so deep we could hand her over to Satan in person (on Margaret Thatcher)
1810 C.S. Lewis
Once very near the end I said, 'If you can - if it is allowed - come to me when I too am on my death bed.' 'Allowed!' she said. 'Heaven would have a job to hold me; and as for Hell, I'd break it into bits.
1297 Cedric Nye
She watched as the dancing lights of madness swirled and flickered in his eyes like the fires of hell, and she knew that there would never be anything that could quench those fires except death. Vanessa knew that Jango had become his own Grim Reaper.
3254 Charles Sheffield
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.
3378 Richelle Mead
God might work on mysterious ways, but hell worked on efficient ones.
4677 Margaret Atwood
Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.
4045 Neil Gaiman
Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days sitting on their shoulders, forcing them to commits acts they would otherwise find repulsive. 'The devil made me do it.' I have never made one of them do anything. Never. They live their own tiny lives. I do not live their lives for them.
2382 Paulo Coelho
God hides the fires of hell within paradise.
3085 Robert C. Shannon
Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is - where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge.
3392 Neil Gaiman
They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.
3098 Kele Moon
Can I tell you that in my eyes not even God would be good enough to command you?
4820 Stephen Biro
God's green earth can no longer sustain itself for those who worship the golden calf. Those who have put this planet in jeopardy shall no longer live. We have been working hard for this day to come and we have help from every God-fearing being on this planet. Many will say they believe, when in their hearts, they truly worship Mammon.
3411 Stephen Biro
The Id and the Superego are more scientific ways of considering the Devil and God, or your personal angels and demons. Science has turned the relationship between God, the Devil and you into a viewpoint for all to understand without the framework of religious belief to sidetrack the layperson into another realm of thinking.
2357 Margaret Atwood
You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.
4419 Omar Khayyam
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
1004 Stephen Biro
You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.
4688 Felix Wantang
When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.
3971 Unknown Author
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved.
2650 E.A.A. Wilson
In a world where people are too languid to make something of themselves out of effort, I sell them hope. What they do with it is up to them. Invariably they drink it and then hurl it down a gutter, but that’s their choice and their freedom. I won’t judge them.
2339 Libba Bray
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.
1546 Christopher Hitchens
To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation - is that good for the world?
2060 Isaac Asimov
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
2732 Christopher Marlowe
Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?
3036 Rob Bell
If we want hell,
if we want heaven,
they are ours.
That's how love works. It can't be forced, manipulated, or coerced.
It always leaves room for the other to decide.
God says yes,
we can have what we want,
because love wins.
2222 Rob Bell
You turn the light on, you get all kinds of bugs.
2967 Mike Corbett
There is a sort of mental treason
That smothers dreams outside of reason
4740 John Wilmot
For Hell and the foul fiend that rules
God's everlasting fiery jails
(Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools),
With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door,
Are senseless stories, idle tales,
Dreams, whimseys, and no more.
2858 T.A. Miles
He’d never really given religion much thought himself. It was just there, one of the basic fundamentals of life and living; Heaven is generally good and one should aspire to end up there, and Hell is decidedly foul and one should generally direct their enemies there.
4030 Charlotte Brontë
And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?”
“No, sir.”
“What must you do to avoid it?”
I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: “I must keep in good health, and not die.
2195 Mike Corbett
I am fashionably unimpressed with the material world. I am moved by the beauty of aspiration, and I hope that I can elevate myself to the standards I have imposed on others.
1900 Thérèse De Lisieux
Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté.
4747 Slade Combs
Believe that you are someone worth saving.
3380 Slade Combs
There is no place so dark that light cannot lead the way.
1149 Slade Combs
Healing cannot occur by refusing to listen to the truth, unsettling as it may be.
1221 Slade Combs
The difference in our potential as angels or demons is the effect of time on the decisions we make.
2656 Crystal Woods
Madeleine Albright says, “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.” I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.
2564 Twe Stephens
Intellectualism is a poor master over passion
1017 John Lubbock
The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.
1741 James A. Murphy
Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future….
2245 Munia Khan
Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
4227 Michael Bassey Johnson
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
3481 Blaise Pascal
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
1259 Rick Riordan
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.
2708 Sheri Cobb South
Take it!" he snarled, hurling the diamond necklace across the table at his opponent. "And may you rot in hell with it!"
"I should not dream of intruding upon you there," replied Mr Brundy, bowing deeply from the waist.
1126 Terry Pratchett
I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be doin’ it all the time.”
“It’s all right if you’re religious,” said Brian reassuringly. “And it stops the witches from goin’ to Hell, so I expect they’d be quite grateful if they understood it properly.
3082 Richard Kadrey
If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says.
4697 Alan Kinross
Harley's eyes widened in horror, and a low moan of fear escaped his mouth. The back alley was filled with a vision from Hell.
3280 Clarence Darrow
I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
1656 Stephen Levine
[C]oncepts of dying in to a heaven or hell seem a good deal more political than spiritual. (124)
4932 Gemma Malley
All beauty has a dark side. Heaven can't exist without hell.
3530 Thomas Aquinas
The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.
1546 Kathy Acker
After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish captors extended him the choice of converting to Christianity and ascending to Heaven of going unrepentantly to Hell. Gathering that his executioners expected to go to heaven, Hatuey chose the other
2818 Aby Santos
Being a Christian, for some other people, is not cool-praying, reading bible, lifting your hands while singing Christian songs, listening to a boring sermon? But would it still be cool if you're already in hell? Think about that.
4797 Brian Welch
I had a lot of Hell that God needed to squeeze out of me, and believe me, sometimes when the Hell leaves you it screams at God on the way out. And when the pain from your past leaves you, sometimes you have to feel it again on the way out. There's nothing we can say or do that can separate us from God's love.
4208 Susan Howatch
Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.
3733 Jared C. Wilson
The frightening thing is that, to enter hell, all one has to do is nothing.
4474 J.C. Ryle
It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.
4531 Elder Porphyrios
Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.
4943 George Whitefield
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
2851 Michael Bassey Johnson
If a woman's vagina was hell fire, then alot of sex maniacs would prefer to spend their eternity in hell.
2437 Pete Townshend
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell.
3972 Arely Martinez Garcia
Life is hell. You don't need a heart. All that is needed is to give into the dark.
The heart is only required in the unreachable heaven.
4682 Michael Bassey Johnson
Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.
3632 Mark Leidner
Lovers are the coolest their hearts beat the best & they kiss magic as hell
4288 Nana Mary Roseanne
Maybe your right. Maybe I should blame myself… Who the hell needs that?
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