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Quotes About Hell

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
~ Victor Hugo
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
~ Isaac Asimov
I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could.
~ Harriet Tubman
I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.
~ Robert Vaughn
The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.
~ Jakob Bohme
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
~ Salma Hayek
Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next day, another Scopes trial, or another War to End War, or perchance a rich and buxom widow with all her first husband's clothes. There are always more Hardings hatching. I advocate hanging on as long as possible.
~ H.L. Mencken
the daemoniac rattle and wheeze of a blasphemous organ, choking and rumbling out the mockeries of hell in a cracked, sardonic bass.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The subject, a widely known architect with leanings toward theosophy and occultism, went violently insane on the date of young Wilcox's seizure, and expired several months later after incessant screamings to be saved from some escaped denizen of hell.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
But in that instant of curiosity was born the madly unreasoning desire which has brought me to this hell of confinement.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Nonsense,' said Bjartur, 'there's nothing lucky about it at all. I will have no truck with superstition. She can lie where she is, the old bitch.' 'Let me down to give her a stone, Bjartur.' 'What the devil does she want with a stone? No stone from me or mine. We pay our dues to the living, which is more to the point than pandering to people that have been fried in hell for centuries.
~ Halldor Laxness
So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell. Not basically, Win corrected. Entirely.
~ Harlan Coben
Deep down I knew that if Hell existed, it was a real place full of ruthless, venal people, like the commodity pits at the Chicago Board of Trade, Disney World, or oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court.
~ Richard Dooling
HELL: A place where the police are German, the motorists French and the cooks English.
~ Bertrand Russell
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.
~ Gemma Galgani
You're going to hell," Ronnie said for the millionth time. "Don't worry. I've picked up a lovely property overlooking the lake of fire. We're set.
~ Shelly Laurenston
Jemmy dipped the quill in beet juice and continued scribbling. "I'll tell him you've got reserved seats in Hell." "Aye! That's the ticket!
~ Sid Fleischman
I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded in hell.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
I died in hell. They called it Passchendaele.
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Acaso el infierno que le estaba destinado sería peor que el mundo infernal en que estaba viviendo?
~ Silvina Ocampo
The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.
~ Simon R. Green
I ignored him, concentrating on Lilith. "According to the stories, after you were expelled from Eden you went down into Hell, where you coupled with demons and gave birth to all the monsters that have plagued the world." "I was young," said Lilith. "You know how it is. We all do things we later regret, when we're being rebellious teenagers.
~ Simon R. Green
This isn't Hell, it's the Nightside. Thought sometime you can see Hell from here.
~ Simon R. Green
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself.
~ Sir Thomas Browne