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Quotes About Hell

Hell has degrees, so does love
~ Jean Genet
But there was an unfortunate complication, namely that her mother and father were Christians, and not the Jesus-is-love kind of Christians but the Hell-has-a-special-room-waiting-for-you kind.
~ Jean Hanff Korelitz
The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.
~ Jean Renoir
If I was bound for hell, let it be hell. No more false heavens. No more damned magic. You hate me and I hate you. We'll see who hates best. But first, first I will destroy your hatred. Now. My hate is colder, stronger, and you'll have no hate to warm yourself. You will have nothing.
~ Jean Rhys
Karma and hell and suffering aren't things in their own right but disturbances in this flimsy substance of false self. The problem isn't in the disturbing things but in the thing disturbed. The thing disturbed is the false thing and if it weren't there, there'd be nothing to be disturbed. Nothing to get pierced or burned or dried out. Nothing to be wounded or slain.
~ Jed McKenna
I have this notion that maybe this world is the hell of the angels. That maybe we're creatures with angels exiled in our souls, banished to this godawful existence, howling in despair...and all those beautiful dreams we have are only the ravings of those angels, their screams in our animal minds.
~ Jeff Fields
I have this notion that maybe this world is the hell of the angels. That maybe we're creatures with angels exiled in our souls, banished to this godawful existence, crying in despair… and all those fancy frigging dreams we have are only the cries of those poor old angels, their screams in our animal minds
~ Jeff Fields
A bumper sticker read "Grandma Went To Hell And All I Got Was This Lousy Bumper Sticker.
~ Jeff Strand
That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death.
~ Elie Wiesel
It was that moment that I began to hate them, and my hate is still the only link between us today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first of the faces of hell and death.
~ Elie Wiesel
Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming. That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death. They
~ Elie Wiesel
That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death. They
~ Elie Wiesel
Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I knew then that this is how God loves us all and receives us all, and that there is no such thing in this universe as hell, except maybe in our own terrified minds. Because if even one broken and limited human being could experience even one such episode of absolute forgiveness and acceptance of her own self, then imagine—just imagine!—what God, in all His eternal compassion, can forgive and accept.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Heaven is love, then hell is love, too.
~ 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.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
THERE WERE THOSE who compared Bedlam to hell—a writhing purgatory of torture and insanity. But Apollo Greaves, Viscount Kilbourne, knew what Bedlam really was. It was limbo. A place of interminable waiting.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Though one were strong as seven, He too with death shall dwell, Nor wake with wings in heaven, Nor weep for pains in hell;
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
You have a face that suits a woman For her soul's screen-- The sort of beauty that's called human In hell, Faustine.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Endurance is composed of four attributes: eagerness, fear, piety and anticipation (of death). So whoever is eager for Paradise will ignore temptations; whoever fears the fire of Hell will abstain from sins; whoever practises piety will easily bear the difficulties of life and whoever anticipates death will hasten towards good deeds.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib
He turns to go—and that's when he gets kicked in the head by the half of the pantomime horse it's slipped his mind to shoot. He falls to the ground, dead himself on top of the pantomime fallen. It's a surrealist vision of hell. What's surrealist, Mr. Gluck? This is.
~ Ali Smith
No other religion ever raised Hell to such importance as Christianity, under which it became a fantastic underground kingdom of cruelty, surrounded by dense strata of legend, myth, religious creed, and what, from a distance, we might call dubious psychology.
~ Alice K. Turner
The landscape of Hell is the largest shared construction project in imaginative history, and its chief architects have been creative giants- Homer, Virgil, Plato, Augustine, Dante, Bosch, Michelangelo, Milton, Goethe, Blake, and more.
~ Alice K. Turner
This is just a temporary hell, not a permanent one
~ Alice Sebold