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Quotes About Hell

Life breaks into beauty again and we realize that man may bring hell itself into the world, but that Nature ever patiently waits to be his natural paradise.
~ Walt Whitman
There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now.
~ Walt Whitman
I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and Increase upon myself, the latter I translate into new tongue.
~ Walt Whitman
Omar Khayyam:     I sent my soul through the Invisible,       Some letter of that after-life to spell,     And by-and-by my soul return'd to me,       And answer'd, I myself am Heaven and Hell.
~ Walt Whitman
The pleasure of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself . . . . the latter I translate into a new tongue.
~ Walt Whitman
The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me.
~ Walt Whitman
I am the poet of the body and I am the poet of the Soul, The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me
~ Walt Whitman
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are status quo is the catastrophe. It is not an ever-present possibility but what in each case is given. Thus hell is not something that awaits us, but this life here and now.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.
~ Walter Isaacson
Central Wyoming was like hell without the flames, an underworld thrust up onto the surface.
~ Walter Kirn
If Satan played bingo in hell, I had just gotten my final winning/losing number.
~ Walter Mosley
realized that even though I was a ghost, I was the one being haunted by the animosity I'd worn like a badge through my life. I never made anything of myself, and I held Mira back. I wrote stories that I knew would never be published, and I hated freely. I was my own private hell.
~ Walter Mosley
If hell...has one complexion more hideous than another, it is where villainy is masked by hypocracy
~ Walter Scott
Earth is heaven. Or hell. Your choice.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there. I don't know if the devil's got horns and a spear for a tail, but I don't think that's the point. The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place.
~ Charles Martin
The point is that hell is separate from love. If Lucifer knows anything, he knows that. And ever since Emma left, I'd known the same thing. It's a lonely, desolate place.
~ Charles Martin
Sometimes I think that hell is two places: it's a place you end up, but it's also a place that you live before you get there.
~ Charles Martin
Sometimes I think about dying. And then I wonder about going to hell. And then I think that if and when I go there, the place will be completely organized and run by lost souls, with a council and a works committee and an ethics panel, and I'll feel right at home.
~ Charles Sheffield
This strange thing must have crept Right out of hell. It resembles a bird's foot Worn around the cannibal's neck. As you hold it in your hand, As you stab with it into a piece of meat, It is possible to imagine the rest of the bird: Its head which like your fist Is large, bald, beakless, and blind.
~ Charles Simic
If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
~ Charles Spurgeon
She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way; but west Texas had given her something more concrete upon which to dread the afterlife.
~ Cherie Priest
Surreal. It was his word of the week. "This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.
~ Cherie Priest
Winter in 'Zona is spring Spring is summer Autumn is our winter And summer is Hell.
~ Cherishe Archer
I don't think Indians have learnt much since that day. We remain as divided as ever. Everyone still tries to cut a deal for themselves while the nation goes to hell.
~ Chetan Bhagat