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Quotes About Hell

los paraísos artificiales acaban en infiernos naturales...
~ Salman Rushdie
If you die and go to Hell the Braves fan said, you have to change places in Atlanta.
~ Salman Rushdie
She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages …
~ Salman Rushdie
In death as in life he would be full of unspoken words and they would be his Hell, tormenting him through all eternity.
~ Salman Rushdie
There is, in fact, no worldview more reprehensible in its arrogance than that of a religious believer: the creator of the universe takes an interest in me, approves of me, loves me, and will reward me after death; my current beliefs, drawn from scripture, will remain the best statement of the truth until the end of the world; everyone who disagrees with me will spend eternity in hell….
~ Sam Harris
Many religious moderates have taken the apparent high road of pluralism, asserting the equal validity of all faiths, but in doing so they neglect to notice the irredeemably sectarian truth claims of each. As long as a Christian believes that only his baptized brethren will be saved on the Day of Judgment, he cannot possibly respect the beliefs of others, for he knows that the flames of hell have been stoked by these very ideas and await their adherents even now.
~ Sam Harris
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
~ Peter A. Levine
The DS represents a critical moment for Nintendo's success over the next two years. If it succeeds, we rise to the heavens, if it fails, we sink into hell.
~ Hiroshi Yamauchi
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
~ William James
I never thought about heaven per se. I think when you're dead, you're dead. If anything happens after that, you just hope you don't go to hell.
~ Helen Thomas
When you return to this mundane sphere from your visionary world, you would seem to leave a Neapolitan spring for a Lapland winter—to quit paradise for earth—heaven for hell! Taste the hashish, guest of mine—taste the hashish.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Christ Almighty! To see yourself... face to face.,. The clothes were on fire. Did you see that? What in God's name was it?' 'It was Gully Foyle,' Robin said, 'burning in hell.
~ Alfred Bester
sometimes wonder if all the faith and all the fancy, all the fear, the speculation, all the wild imaginings that go into the study of heaven and hell, don't shortchange, after all, that other, earlier uncertainty: the darkness before the slow coming to awareness of the first light.
~ Alice McDermott
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~ Allen Ginsberg
Heaven is a prophecy uttered by the lips of despair, but Hell is an inference from analogy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
She'll forgive me for defending myself as soon as she...gets back. And you had better hope that she is back by the next time those pretty black eyes open, because otherwise, I am going to have to get creative, and you probably aren't going to enjoy that, So shut your mouth, shut your eyes, and go to sleep, or I swear to Heaven, Hell, and all the worlds between, I will give you good reason to scream.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell.
~ Aminatta Forna
When you're in hell," murmured Yarvi, "only a devil can point the way out.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less. What you are giving away then is your own soul.
~ Joe Hill
If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils.
~ Joe Hill
The fires of hell are not hot enough for a man—or woman!—who would hurt his children.
~ Joe Hill
If hell was anything, it was talk radio—and family. In
~ Joe Hill
Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.
~ Joe Schreiber
I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
~ Joel Osteen