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Quotes About Hell

Indeed, it was the conviction of some divines that God created night as proof of hell's existence.
~ A. Roger Ekirch
Catholicism was trying to avoid hell, but Protestantism was trying to achieve heaven.
~ A.A. Gill
Goodness than depends on fear of hell or fear of the policeman or fear of punishment is not goodness at all - it is simply cowardice. Goodness than depends on hope of reward or hope of praise or hope of heaven depends on bribery.
~ A.S. Neill
To be sucked down by this whirling stream is to fall into abysses of madness, more frightful than those of death; to expel the shades of this chaos and compel it to give perfect forms to our thoughts - this is to be a man of genius; it is to create, it is to be victorious over hell! The
~ Éliphas Lévi
Men, tired of the light, take refuge in the shadow of corporeal substance: the dream of the void which God fills soon seems to them greater than God himself, and hell is created.
~ Éliphas Lévi
In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.
~ Aberjhani
Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.
~ Aberjhani
What is hell other than a realm in which unholiness works without restraint in body and soul?
~ Abraham Kuyper
It is the most complete skin-crawling, silently screaming evocation of hell; the reinforced concrete transubstantiation of sleepless megalomania and hysterical fear.
~ Adrian Gill
Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express.
~ Rob Corddry
Many of my colleagues are not able to run their family budget. On the other hand, I look at some of the apparatchiks in research councils, and I have even less trust in their abilities. Good intentions have always paved the road to hell.
~ Andre Geim
I read to him from his mother's Bible the first line of Genesis: 'In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.' It says nothing about hell, Tom. That came later with the membership drive.
~ Poe Ballantine
As every multitude is fickle, full of lawless desires, unreasoned passion, and violent anger, the multitude must be held in by invisible terrors and suchlike pageantry. For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly & at haphazard in introducing among the people notions concerning the gods & beliefs in the terrors of hell, but that the moderns are most rash & foolish in banishing such beliefs" (Book 6, sec. 56)
~ Polybius
Welcome to Arizona, where summer spends the winter — and hell spends the summer.
~ Popular saying
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
~ Poul Anderson
Go to heaven for the love and hell for the tussle and hassle.
~ Prof.Salam Al Shereida
Unless Hell is full, no lawyer will ever be saved.
~ Proverb
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way.
~ Publius Vergilius Maro
Heaven or hell is in one's mind, not in the material things one has in the world
~ Qiu Xiaolong
I almost hope it is a mouth that opens directly to hell, for of a certainty, we could use the heat.
~ R.L. LaFevers
I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell.
~ Kim Elizabeth
I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
~ Kate Millett
There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.
~ Monica Johnson
I am not a person of faith. I'm a Catholic. I was brought up Catholic, but I'm not a church-going sort of girl. I'm very spiritual. I pray every night. I believe in Heaven and Hell, but I'm not a person that goes to church, like, every Sunday.
~ Cristina Saralegui