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Quotes About Hell

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
~ Poul Anderson, Operation Chaos
It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
~ Herbert Hoover
Howling duststorms of nuclear ashes. Human and animal bone powder. Flakes and fragments of the destroyed world. Filthy tempests of death. I am in Hell, he said.
~ C.J. Anderson, Ruinland
And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.
~ Wilfred Owen
A society which reverences the attainment of riches as the supreme felicity will naturally be disposed to regard the poor as damned ... if only to justify itself for making their life a hell.
~ R. H. Tawney
Judgment, than which nothing is more strict Hell, than which nothing is more terrible Paradise, than which nothing is more delightful
~ Adriana Trigiani
He's freed some fire from ice in pity for Heaven. He's left open—for God—the doors of Hell tonight.
~ Agha Shahid Ali
I shall tell you where we are. We're in the most extreme and utter region of the human mind. A dim, subconscious underworld. A radiant abyss where men meet themselves. Hell, Netley. We're in Hell.
~ Alan Moore
Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart... ...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.
~ Alan Moore
He would sooner live a life of endless blessing than one of dying curse, and after all, it was in how you chose to see things that the narrow border between Hell and Paradise was traced.
~ Alan Moore
He would sooner live a life of endless blessing than one of undying curse, and after all, it was in how you chose to see things that the narrow border between Hell and Paradise was traced.
~ Alan Moore
Depois de visitado, o Inferno perde a sua aura aterrorizante.
~ Alan Moore
It's wearying, like Caliban buttonholing you in hell and telling you the struggle he's having getting along with himself.
~ Derek Raymond
He still didn't believe we could do it to him, and left with the assured insolence of a credit card presenting itself at the thin mouth of hell.
~ Derek Raymond
I said to myself – wait for me in hell, I'll come to you.
~ Derek Raymond
She said several times that Malcolm was a fiend who was determined to destroy his children, and that I was the devil incarnate helping him. She hoped we would both rot in hell. (I thought devils and fiends might flourish there, actually.)
~ Dick Francis
And me who seem curious because no one has seen me for a million years, and now I'm seen! Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty? Let go Hell; and your fall will be broken by the roof of Heaven.
~ Djuna Barnes
what in hellhave i done to deserveall these kittens
~ Don Marquis
I'll look out for him," Keller said. Because he needs to. Call it penance, call it atonement or whatever the hell you want, he only knows that he needs to do it, that he can only find redemption by helping this boy find his, by showing love to what he hates, that at the end of the day or the end of the world, there are no separate souls. We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.
~ Don Winslow
Luis hopes for heaven. Keller fears hell. Vera fears only death, and that because he takes such pleasure in life.
~ Don Winslow
Hell isn't having no choice. It's having to make a choice between horrific things.
~ Don Winslow
Weep if you must Parting is hell But life goes on So sing as well.
~ Joyce Grenfell
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.