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Quotes About Hell

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape.
~ Antonin Artaud
The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.
~ Armand Salacrou
The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.
~ Thomas Browne
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
~ J. C. Ryle
Texas is a hell hole, man. Dirt, cactus, lizards, dirt, cactus, the Bush family.
~ Christopher Titus
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
~ Dorothy Gilman
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
~ Lucretius
Texas is a fine place for men and dogs, but hell on women and horses.
~ Molly Ivins
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
~ John Milton
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
~ Christian Scriver
Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.
~ Dwight L. Moody
When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.
~ Charles Spurgeon
To live one's love and hatred, to live that which one is means defeat, resignation, and death. The crimes of society, the hell that man has made or man become unconquerable cosmic forces.
~ Herbert Marcuse
Indolence is heaven 's ally here, And energy the child of hell : The Good Man pouring from his pitcher clear But brims the poisoned well.
~ Herman Melville
Qu'importe, mon Dieu, que je brûle toute l'éternité en enfer, si c'est ta volonté.
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
When you learn to love hell, you will be in heaven.
~ Thaddeus Golas
In Anglo-Saxon countries the prostitutes look as if they purveyed, along with sin, the attendant pains of hell.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.
~ Theodore Dalrymple
Ochii sunt portile raiului si iadului.
~ Theodore Roszak
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
~ Thomas Brooks
Man is without Duty round him; except it be "to make the Constitution." He is without Heaven above him, or Hell beneath him; he has no God in the world.
~ Thomas Carlyle
But in the murderer, such a murderer as a poet will condescend to, there must be raging some great storm of passion—jealousy, ambition, vengeance, hatred—which will create a hell within him; and into this hell we are to look.
~ Thomas de Quincey