Quotes About Hell

Heaven for climate, Hell for company.

The doctrine of hell exists solely to paralyze thought.

This is a war and war is hell and what the hell and so to hell with it.

Solving a real problem was much more meaningful than saving fictional souls from a fictional hell.

It can be a living hell to go through endless campus investigations. I've seen this go down, and there really is no winning once the accusation is made, even if the process provides formal vindication.

For several years at the University of Virginia, students had an annual tradition of raising hell around campus, burning tar barrels and shooting pistols into the air.

Virtue is its own reward. We only invented concepts like heaven and hell to describe how we feel. We don't feel good doing bad and it's nice to help someone.

I'll make some inquiries, but I won't do it for you. I'll do it because Frannie would want me to." "You love her, don't you?" "Go to hell." Jack laughed. "You're too late with that command, mate. I've been there since I was born.

He'd follow her to hell to claim it was due to him. Unfortunately, he suspected she was headed for heaven, which was barred to him.

Hell is a state of mind . . .  And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind—is, in the end, Hell.  But Heaven is not a state of mind.  Heaven is reality itself.

What was that Milton quote we were raised with? "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The funny thing about Hell is that we assume it's obvious. Fire, brimstone. We'll be plunged into it by some horrific event in our lives. But the truth is, Hell can be as subtle as Heaven. He looked around. Sometimes we don't recognize we've wandered into Hell until it's too late.

When we first sat down, you said that Hell is empty and all the devils are here. What did you mean?" "It's one of my favorite quotes, you know that," said Stephen. And Armand did. Stephen loved to use the lines from The Tempest to unnerve business rivals, colleagues. Friends. Strangers on planes.

you said that Hell is empty and all the devils are here. What did you mean?

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

The mind is its own place, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven,

just as soon as I hear that hell is freezing over and has opened up a skating rink for fools.

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.

Religions or principles are renewed, but the base is the same, Hell for the rump of the sated beast, Paradise for the head of the sad god.

The scene was horrid, yet it had the purity of a stanza from a ballad come to life, a ballad composed about tragic events in some border hell.

Religion annexes to its doctrines a curse and a blessing … Blessed is he that believeth, cursed is he that believeth not. Thus it appeals not to reason, but to feeling, … to the passions of hope and fear. … [T]he fear of hell urges me to believe. Even supposing my belief to be in its origin free, fear inevitably intermingles itself[.]

How could she trust this man, so imprecise with his words, to take care of the burial? To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a pair of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

When my mother was in the hospital," I say, "her rabbi told her a story. In Heaven and Hell, people sit at banquet tables filled with amazing food, but no one can bend their elbows. In Hell, everyone starves because they can't feed themselves. In Heaven, everyone's stuffed, because they don't have to bend their arms to feed each other.

If ever there was a body of men who merited eternal damnation on earth and in hell, it is this Society of (Ignatius de) Loyola.