Hell Quotes

The devil's name is Dullness.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Anonymous

Be sober be vigilant because your adversary the devil as a roaring lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour.

Bible

Heaven for climate hell for company.

James M. Barrie

We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talents.

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

When you first learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

Hell is indefinite.

Charles Williams

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

All hell broke loose.

The cunning livery of hell.

William Shakespeare

If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

William A. Sunday

Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.

Emmanuel Swedenborg

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope soft underfoot without sudden turnings without milestones without signposts.

The Devil's boots don't creak.

Scottish Proverb

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Albert Schweitzer

Hell madame is to love no longer.

Georges Bernanos

My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she’ll end up taking over.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Somebody once told me the definition of hell:“On your last day on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.” — Anonymous

Anonymous

You cannot lead an enemy to Heaven, but you can lead a friend even to Hell.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Men can go to hell! Iâ€™ll meet them there.

Ljupka Cvetanova

People love their hells because they keep them!

In a marshland amongst the crocodiles, there float beautiful water lilies! Even in the Hell, one can find the good and the beauty.

Mehmet Murat ildan

Each of us bears his own Hell.

Virgil

I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in the face of the Prince of Darkness, whoever he might be!On the contrary, if I was a damned thing, then let the son of a bitch come for me! Let him tell me why I was mean to suffer. I would truly like to know.As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

Anne Rice

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how we get

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

It is warm within the mansions of Hel.

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Alan Alda

If there's a place for me in Hell I hope it's next to someone like you

Stanley Victor Paskavich

What is Hell like?" I blurted out before I could stop myself. Damn my curiosity. "You've never been there?" He eyed me suspiciously. Yeah, I went to Hell every summer for vacation.

Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.

Larry Atchley Jr.

Hell was never God's intention. It is man's invention. It is a human-manufactured religious icon, no less idolatrous than deifying a statue.

Carlton D. Pearson

I do believe in hell as a state of being or consciousness, and I believe that people can dwell in hell and that many do, right now, today, on this earth before rather than after death. I will argue ... that hell is the most erroneous, oudated, misunderstood, and misguided dogma in all of Christianity, and the one that must be discarded if this spiritual tradition is to survive as anything more than a contemptable curiosity.

Carlton D. Pearson

Even with all their threats of eternal damnation and soul roasting, Christian missionaries have run across some who were not so quick to swallow their drivel. Pleasure and pain, like beauty, are in the eye of the beholder. So, when missionaries ventured to Alaska and warned the Eskimos of the horrors of Hell and the blazing lake of fire awaiting transgressors, they eagerly asked: "How do we get there?"!

Anton Szandor LaVey

If you do bad stuff and don't repent, you go to hell," Orc said, like he was begging for a refutation."Yeah, well, you know what? If Howard's in hell, I guess we can all have a big get-together soon enough. a

You listen to me, and listen good!" she shouted, shocking me. "I am not evil because I have a thousand years of demon smut on my soul!" she exclaimed, the tips of her hair trembling and her face flushed. "Every time you disturb reality, nature has to balance it out. The black on your soul isn't evil, it's a promise to make up for what you have done. It's a mark, not a death sentence. And you can get rid of it given time.""Ceri, I'm sorry," I fumbled, but she wasn't listening. "You're an ignorant, foolish, stupid witch," she berated, and I cringed, my grip tightening on the copper spell pot and feeling the anger from her like a whip. "Are you saying because I carry the stink of demon magic, that I'm a bad person?""No..." I wedged in."That God will show no pity?" she said, green eyes flashing. "That because I made one mistake in fear that led to a thousand more that I will burn in hell?""No. Ceri -" I took a step forward."My soul is black," she said, her fear showing in her suddenly pale cheeks. "I'll never be rid of it all before I die, but it won't be because I'm a bad person but because I was a frightened one.

Through the night we drove in a tangle of waking and sleeping, nightmares from hell and holy white dreams.

I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to you, because you already know what to expect for the rest of eternity. Nothing more and nothing less.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait and wait - for an eternity

Sharon Kay Penman

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.

J.C. Ryle

What do you think the Order is going to do?" he asks. "Help us open a door to Hell, if we're lucky," I reply. Lucky. Ha ha. The irony.

Beside me the monstrumologist murmured, "I believe I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.

Somebody who is Christ's must love Christ, and when he loves Christ he is delivered from the Devil, from hell and from death.

Elder Porphyrios

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

Mehmet Murat ildan

As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

He was in hell. Worse than that, he was in hell, and someone had set it on repeat.

I thought that this must be what purgatory was like. Can't go forward. Can't go back. Awaiting some official judgment.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.

Oswald Chambers

I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.

Deborah Feldman

I'm simpley one hell of a butler.

Sebastian Michealis

Directly beneath the Lotus Pond of Paradise lay the lower depths of Hell, and as He peered through the crystalline waters, He could see the River of Three Crossings and the Mountain of Needles as clearly as if He were viewing pictures in a peep-box.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell.

Great robber though he was, Kandata could only trash about like a dying frog as he choked on the blood of the pond.

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

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