Quotes About Hell

And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."

Nothing is as horrendous as imagining the times of happiness from an environment which is that of hell.

It felt good, really good, just to scream finally. I felt like I was singing a hit single. But in Hell.

nothing is higher than heaven; nothing is beyond the walls of the world; nothing is lower than hell, or more glorious than virtue."48

El infierno, en realidad, es un poderoso estimulante

The gates of Hell are open night and day Smooth the descent, and easy is the way But, to return, and view the cheerful skies In this, the task and mighty labor lies.

But the road to hell, as we remember, is paved with good intentions. That they are a near total failure should seem obvious by now.

Strangely, Augustine held to a literal second coming, a literal heaven and a literal hell, but not to a literal millennium. This arbitrary distinction has never been explained.

Her stare fixed me. Without rancour and without regret; without triumph and without evil; as Desdemona once looked back on Venice. On the incomprehension, the baffled rage of Venice. I had taken myself to be in some way the traitor Iago punished, in an unwritten sixth act. Chained in hell. But I was also Venice; the state left behind; the thing journeyed from.

It's mafia,Mitch and illegal as hell.

There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell

THERE'S LIFE ON EARTH, THERE'S HEAVEN—AND THERE'S HELL." "I think life on earth is hell," I said.

It's long been assumed that Machiavelli is in Hell and -worse- content to be there

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

The mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. / What matter where, if I be still the same...

Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition.

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

UNIVERSALIST, n. One who forgoes the advantage of a Hell for persons of another faith.

Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.

This life is not heaven or hell. It is just part of learning to find peacefulness as the final destination.

The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.