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Quotes About Hell

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
~ Duane Chapman
The lives God gives to us, the awful things we can't escape from. Sometimes I think that sort of God would enjoy making hell for us after we die.
~ C.J. Sansom, Dominion
And if joy were not on the earth, There were an end of change and birth, And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die, And in some gloomy barrow lie Folded like a frozen fly.
~ William Butler Yeats
Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.
~ Edward Irving
Man hath no fate except past deeds, No Hell but what he makes, no Heaven too high For those to reach whose passions sleep subdued.
~ Edwin Arnold
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
A hypocritical person causes mental anguish; whereas, a hypocritical society makes life hell.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
I'm too handsome for God to send me to hell. The rest of you are in for it, though.
~ Elaine Corvidae
The typical accountant is a man, past middle age, spare, wrinkled, intelligent, cold, passive, non-committal, with eyes like a cod-fish; polite in contact but at the same time unresponsive, calm and damnably composed as a concrete post or a plaster of Paris cast; a petrification with a heart of feldspar and without charm of the friendly germ, minus bowels, passion or a sense of humor. Happily they never reproduce and all of them finally go to Hell.
~ Elbert Hubbard
that the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit—this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son—was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.
~ Elena Ferrante
That fact remains that I, who had successfully completed a theological correspondence course, raised my hand and said that the human condition was so obviously exposed to the blind fury of chance that to trust in a God, a Jesus, the Holy Spirit - this last a completely superfluous entity, it was there only to make up a trinity, notoriously nobler than the mere binomial father-son - was the same thing as collecting trading cards while the city burns in the fires of hell.
~ Elena Ferrante
La voluntad de separarse del Todo es el infierno.
~ Elena Garro
The Devil himself had probably re-designed Hell in the light of the information he had gained from observing airport layouts.
~ Anthony Price
The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.
~ Anthony Storr
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined eternally to reenact their escape.
~ Antonin Artaud
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
~ Antonin Artaud
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone
~ Antonio Porchia
A private sector organization of the corporate world, in general, is a dark cell where a lot of demons dwell at peak posts and is a replica of hell on the Earth.
~ Anuj Somany
The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
~ Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Genevieve hunched her shoulders against the storm of sound and fury and struggled to imagine a worse sort of hell. Widdershins, of course, seemed perfectly happy, but Widdershins was weird.
~ Ari Marmell
In London, the home of the quick deal is that outer ring of the seven circles of hell, Tottenham Court Road, where, as a rule, finding something with an advertised price is as likely as spotting a mermaid under Vauxhall Bridge.
~ David Hewson
No, I will never do another Rainbow album. I'll never ever do that again. I want no part in doing it; I want no part in doing anything with Ritchie at all. I respect him. He's a genius. He was a great part of my life, but I don't need to go through that hell.
~ Ronnie James Dio
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
~ John W. Foster
No matter where I'm at - Home Goods, it could be a mother of two, and she'll be a fan, and it's, like, random as hell to me.
~ Khalil Mack