Hell Quotes

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'Tis now the very witching time of night,
When churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out
Contagion to this world.

William Shakespeare

I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas: The Prophet said: "I was shown the Hell-fire and that the majority of its dwellers were women who were ungrateful." It was asked, "Do they disbelieve in Allah?" (or are they ungrateful to Allah?) He replied, "They are ungrateful to their husbands and are ungrateful for the favors and the good (charitable deeds) done to them. If you have always been good (benevolent) to one of them and then she sees something in you (not of her liking), she will say, 'I have never received any good from you."

[Optimism] is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Edgar Allan Poe

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within.

William Shakespeare

We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.

The world is poor for him who has never been sick enough for this 'voluptuousness of hell'.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Who is this Hemingway person at all?
A guy that keeps saying the same thing over and over until you begin to believe it must be good.
That must take a hell of a long time, the big man said.

Raymond Chandler

Fathers and teachers, I ponder, "What is hell?" I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw

If you want to deserve Hell, you need only stay in bed. The world is iniquity; if you accept it, you are an accomplice, if you change it you are an executioner.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

If we assume the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent being, one that knows and can do absolutely everything, then to my own very limited self, it would seem that existence for it would be unbearable. Nothing to wonder about? Nothing to ponder over? Nothing to discover? Eternity in such a heaven would surely be indistinguishable from hell.

He has no children. All my pretty ones?
Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
What! all my pretty chickens and their dam,
At one fell swoop?

William Shakespeare

Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

My life closed twice before its close —
It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to me
So huge, so hopeless to conceive As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell.

Emily Dickinson

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell...

G. K. Chesterton

Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill.

Ernest Hemingway

I can be presidential, but if I was presidential I would only have - about 20% of you would be here because it would be boring as hell.

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!

William Shakespeare

There is another language beyond language,
another place beyond heaven and hell.
Precious gems come from another mine,
the heart draws light from another source.

The bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

William Shakespeare