c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
...the operative idea here is that there is a right and wrong theology -- a right God and a wrong God. But this is an invalid premise. All versions of God are the same thing: A HUMAN INTERPRETATION OF THE UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS.
— Carlton D. Pearson, God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...: God Dwells with Us, in Us, Around Us, as Us
Just as the church needs members with different skills, our world must have various forms of labor, interdependent and thus valuable. A world full of ministers would be without churches, bread for the Lord's Supper, and printed Bibles to read.
— R.C. Sproul Jr., Biblical Economics: A Complete Study Course
As history shows, dead metaphors make good idols.
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God
No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.
— T.F. Torrance
Simply to render oneself able to understand what other Christian thinkers have themselves come to understand and to more or less felicitously communicate requires that one's mind not be a blank slate but already properly formed, disciplined, and exercised.
— Gregory B. Sadler
A Christian is supposed to be in the world, and yet not of the world--a Both/And as perplexing and demanding as the Either/Or that precedes the life of faith. I'm at once a pure, beautiful, genderless soul, but at the same time a gendered body full of flaws, sins, and wanting. This contradiction, the Both/And, is the Cross.
— Therese Doucet
Everything I have learned has not come from books, it has come experientially over time under pressure walking with Christ".~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods
The more rigid and exclusive one makes the border between philosophy and theology, the more that distinction itself has to fall on the side of theology, and the more inaccessible that very distinction becomes to philosophy
— Gregory B. Sadler
I'm of the opinion and quite certain that our 'personal histories' with God are meant to be well informed by the Scriptures
— R. Alan Woods 2007
True thinking takes place within a frame of continuous historical development in which progress in understanding is being made. . . . No constructive thinking that is worth while can be undertaken that sets at nought the intellectual labours of the centuries that are enshrined in tradition, or be undertaken on the arrogant assumption that everything must be thought through de novo as if nothing true had already been done or said. He who undertakes that kind of work will inevitably be determined unconsciously by the assumptions of popular piety which have already been built into his mind.
— T.F. Torrance
Give her hell from us, Peeves.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
— Robert Frost
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
All right, then, I'll go to hell.
— Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
— Victor Hugo, Ninety-Three
I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.
— William S. Burroughs
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
But unlike you," said Jace, "there is nothing of hell in us.""You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
Hell is just a frame of mind.
— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
— William Blake
Lost in Hell,-Persephone,Take her head upon your knee;Say to her, "My dear, my dear,It is not so dreadful here.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems
Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.
— William Carlos Williams
You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.
— Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
— Gary Larson
Faustus: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me, what good willmy soul do thy lord?Mephistopheles: Enlarge his kingdom.Faustus: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?Mephistopheles: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.(It is a comfort to the wretched to have companions in misery.)
— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
When you're in hell, only a devil can point the way out.
— Joe Abercrombie, Half a King
When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, White Hot Kiss
The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.
— Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like.
— David Sedaris
The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
— John Milton
Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be.
— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
Where have you come from boy?'He looked at her again.'From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you.
— Paul  Hoffman, The Left Hand of God
Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.
— Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
You can all go to hell
—  I will go to Texas
Okay, fine. But just so you know, following me into hell means you're all definitely the sidekicks.
— Rachel Hawkins, Spell Bound
Long hair will send you to hell!
— Hidekaz Himaruya, Hetalia: Axis Powers, Vol. 2
No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.
— Mike Carey, Lucifer, Vol. 2: Children and Monsters
You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 — all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people.
— Peter S. Beagle, Tamsin
This was hell then
—  it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.
Dean, you've been to Hell, I started the Apocalypse, and we're supposed to be possessed by an archangel and the devil. Now you're being skeptical?
— Keith R.A. DeCandido, Heart of the Dragon
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements,Where we are tortured and remain forever.Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribedIn one self place, for where we are is hell,And where hell is must we ever be.And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves,And every creature shall be purified,All places shall be hell that is not heaven.
— Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus
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 with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans.
— Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale
Tadas was sent to the principal today," announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage into his small mouth."Why?" I asked."Because he talked about hell," sputtered Jonas, juice from the plump sausage dribbling down his chin."Jonas, don't speak with your mouth full. Take smaller pieces," scolded Mother."Sorry," said Jonas with his moth stuffed. "It's good." He finished chewing. I took a bite of sausage. It was warm and the skin was deliciously salty."Tadas told one of the girls that hell is the worst place ever and there's no escape for all eternity.""Now why would Tadas be talking of hell?" asked Papa, reaching for the vegetables."Because his father told him that if Stalin comes to Lithuania, we'll all end up there.
— Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even fairly evil and corrupt souls were bright enough to realize that since they didn't have the concomitant body and nerve endings attached to them there was no real reason, other than force of habit, why they should suffer excruciating agony. So they didn't. Demons went on doing it anyway, because numb and mindless stupidity is part of what being a demon is all about, but since no one was suffering they didn't enjoy it much either and the whole thing was pointless. Centuries and centuries of pointlessness.
— Terry Pratchett, Eric
They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?
— Neil Gaiman, Season of Mists
You did thirst for blood, and with blood I fill you
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell.
— Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
— Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees
To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
— Hypatia
The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons.
— Jean Renoir
Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled.
— Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences,” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble.
— Sarah Silverman, The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption, and Pee
Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
— George Bernard Shaw
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.
The strongest intimidation, by the way, is the invention of a hereafter with a hell everlasting.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.
— William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell.
— Abigail Roux, Crash & Burn
*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you?*She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes.*Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone.*I hate to admit it, but she has a point.
— Richard Kadrey, Sandman Slim
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct.
— William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.
— J.M. Redmann, Death by the Riverside
Doorman: Good morning Mr. PeaknisMr. P.: Go to hell
— Rachel Caine, Ghost Town
There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.
— Colson Whitehead, The Intuitionist
The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.
— John Piper
Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.
— Bruce Robinson, Withnail and I: the Original Screenplay
Through me is the way to the city of woe. Through me is the way to sorrow eternal. Through me is the way to the lost below. Justice moved my architect supernal. I was constructed by divine power,supreme wisdom, and love primordial. Before me no created things were. Save those eternal, and eternal I abide. Abandon all hope, you who enter.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Maybe that's what Hell is, in the end. All of your wrongful shit played out there in front of you while you're being pumped from behind by someone you've hurt. That you've screwed over in life. Or worse, worse still...some person who doesn't really love you anymore. No one to ever look at again, make contact with. Just you being fucked as your life splashes out across this big headboard in the Devil's bedroom. Maybe. Even if that's not it, even if Hell is all fire and sulfur and that sort of thing, it couldn't be much worse than that.
— Neil LaBute, The Mercy Seat
But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi.
— William Carlos Williams, Kora in Hell
Shakespeare's Iago could be played as a soul in hell, driven, dark and desperate, willing to do anything, willing to use anyone, in order to escape from that hell.
— Laura Lee Guhrke, Scandal of the Year
The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell.
— Robert Olen Butler, Hell
The possibility of paradise hovers on the cusp of coming into being, so much so that it takes powerful forces to keep such a paradise at bay. If paradise now arises in hell, it's because in the suspension of the usual order and the failure of most systems, we are free to live and act another way.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell
And so, given the musical sensibilities Hatcher treasured in his earthly life, it is hard to exaggerate the severity of his torture at standing naked in his tiny kitchen in Hell as former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover sings a Bee Gees disco song backed by a full studio orchestra and Robin and Maurice.
— Robert Olen Butler, Hell
Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well," the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...
— Keith B. Darrell, Paved with Good Intentions
I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.
— Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed
Many people are caught up with the toys of contemporary society. Because of great advancements in our culture, some have cultivated an attitude of “comfortability.” They may be going to hell, but it is going to be a comfortable ride for them.
— A.W. Tozer, And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John
Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves something coming back. People who are possessed are not possessed by something that just comes but instead by something that comes back. Sometimes life comes back. If in me everything crumbled before that power, it is not because that power was itself necessarily an overwhelming one: it in fact had only to come, since it had already become too full-flowing a force to be controlled or contained - when it appeared it overran everything. And then, like after a flood, there floated a wardrobe, a person, a loose window, three suitcases. And that seemed like Hell to me, that destruction of layers and layers of human archaeology.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.
How many millions there are who don't want to go to Hell, but they don't want to get off the road to Hell.
— Alan Cairns
This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
The fires of hell may be made of the very love of God, experienced as torture by those who hate him: the very light of God's truth, hated and fled from in vain by those who love darkness.
— Peter Kreeft
Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them.
— Leanna Renee Hieber, The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker
He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since.
— Robertson Davies, Fifth Business
La mu’axsa, but I think I’ll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell?
— V.S. Carnes
Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.
— Seth Grahame-Smith, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.
— Nicolás Gómez Dávila
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
— Henning Mankell, The Dogs of Riga
What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on?
— Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter
As for those who disbelieve, their deeds are like a mirage in a desert. The thirsty one thinks it to be water, until he comes up to it, he finds it to be nothing, but he finds Allah with him, Who will pay him his due (Hell). And Allah is Swift in taking account.
— Anonymous
There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring.
— C.S. Lewis, Perelandra
It must not be thought, however, that in pagan Ireland Fairyland was altogether conceived as a Hades or place of the dead. We have already seen that in some of its types and aspects it was inherently nothing of the sort; as when, for example, it came to be confused with the Land of the Gods. In all likelihood these separate paradises and deadlands of a nature so various were the result of the stratified beliefs of successive races dwelling in the same region. A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines. The gods of vanquished races might be conceived as presiding over spheres of the dead for which their victors would have nothing but contempt, and which, because of that very contempt, might come to be conceived as hells or places of a debased and grovelling kind, pestiferous regions which only the spirits of despised "natives" or the undesirable might inhabit.
— Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins
As Harvard University psychologist Daniel Gilbert argues, 'You can't adapt to commuting, because it's entirely unpredictable. Driving in traffic is a different kind of hell every day.'
— Tom Vanderbilt, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell!
— Charles Portis, True Grit
The earth is neither fabulous nor paradisal. And therefore it is not hell.
— Jean-Marie G. Le Clézio, The Book of Flights
When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.
— John Webster
There were so many desperate people on the street crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while, you can´t care anymore. And that is what hell is like.
— Yeonmi Park, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
You're a monster. You'll go to hell.""Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne.
— xxSkemoxx183, Lupus Deus
Love is like a musical score, sometimes very tuneful, creating a harmony of sounds, sometimes extremely harsh, striking a hell of false notes. (“Love lying fallow “)
— Erik Pevernagie
Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow.
— Len Deighton, SS-GB
Go to hell.""I've already been there. I own property in it.
— Tessa Bailey, Too Hard to Forget
I can't understand God and I can't understand myself, so there's no chance in hell that I'm going to understand you!
— Anthony T. Hincks
Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her.
— Ahmed Mostafa
The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.
— Kelsey Brickl, Hardtack: A Civil War Story
Drive like hell was following you." - Jace Wayland
— Cassandra Clare, City of Bones
Hell isn't having no choice.It's having to make a choice between horrific things.
— Don Winslow, The Force
Plenty of things in the universe are old, my dear. That's like saying Florida is a metaphor for hell because they're both hot - though your grandfather would agree wholeheartedly with that, I suppose.
— Sammy Nickalls, Welcome Home
I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,
— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
— William Congreve
Are you taking us to hell?" I ask, and Denise answers with an ominous, "More or less.
— Amy McAuley, Violins of Autumn
Losing an unsaved loved one is hell, but that doesn’t mean that you need to go there yourself by turning away from God. Don’t make the same mistake he or she did.
— Evan Minton, A Hellacious Doctrine: A Defense Of The Biblical Doctrine Of Hell
Hell is not a place you go for your sins. It is where you are when you are not sharing the gifts you were given.
— Jeffrey Fry
I essentially killed those men. Am I slated for hell?"He stepped to me. Put his fingers underneath my chin. Raised it until our gazes locked. "You're a god, Dutch. And the reaper. You don't get slated. You are the slate.
— Darynda Jones, Eleventh Grave in Moonlight
I'm supposed to feel like it’s such a great apartment, but I don’t. It’s the right price, there are no bugs and it’s got a great view, but it’s the lair of Satan...
— A.R. Braun, Horrorbook: twenty-two tales of terror
Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proximity.
— Gary Rudz
People who go through hell in the Heaven of Earth are mostly the people who live their lives according to some religious rules!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Let’s prioritise here. At the risk of stating the obvious, this isn’t going to be easy. We need to find Norma as fast as we can, avoid the powerful demon that wants me as his slave, and then get the fuck out of Hell. I’m sure we’ll encounter some heinous, unthinkable, soul-scarring shit along the way, but hopefully we make it out alive.
— Clive Barker, The Scarlet Gospels
To escape the damnation of hell is to accept God’s kingdom
— Sunday Adelaja
And, as the storm of water thrashed the very pinnacles that toppled into mist, he had seen the ribs of cliff laid bare and bleeding—as it were the laceration of a living land that he looked on. Then, ‘Corne et tonnerre!’ he had seemed to cry to himself, ‘the very world is torn by some inhuman power, and flows to the sea in rivers of purple!’ and he heard the bells of the ocean receding innumerably, choke at their moorings, muffled and congested with the floating scum of carnage that no wind might ruffle and only God’s fire cleanse.Now, in a moment, he saw that what he had taken for land was in truth a great cliff built up of human bodies—a vast reserve of human force accumulated by, and for the use of, a single dominant will. And this cliff was washed by the waves of an ocean of blood, to which its life contributed in a thousand spouting rivulets. And it was compact of limitless pain; and the cry of torture never ceased within it. And suddenly the dreamer—as in the way of dreams—felt himself to be a constituent agony of that he gazed upon—a pulp of suffering self-contained, yet partaking of the wretchedness of all.
— Bernard Capes, The Black Reaper: Tales of Terror
What could he have against love? Sure, it sucked sometimes, but what was the point of living if there wasn't love?
— Chani Lynn Feener, Unhinged
Sometimes the only thing that got you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out.-Ehlena's thoughts
— J.R. Ward, Lover Avenged
PORTERThis is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot.
— William Shakespeare, Macbeth
How selfish and dark it was to count my blessings based on another's hell
— Mercy Cortez, Jethro's Journey
Of the scaly tribe I may mention those suckers belonging to the body loaferish, that ever rise to the surface of respectability, but are always groveling in the mud of corruption, whose sole study appears to be how much they can get without the least physical exertion; and who would rather ride to hell in a hand-cart than walk to heaven supported by the staff of industry.
— Elbridge Gerry Paige, Short Patent Sermons Volume 1
...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the scorching fire. We will watch you from this balcony,' he added, 'but of course it will then be too late to save you.'I smiled, but Fr. Theophanes was in full swing and clearly in no mood for joking. 'No one can truly know what that day will be like.' He shook his head gravely. 'But some of our Orthodox fathers have had visions. Fire-fire that will never end, terrible, terrible fire - will come from the throne of Christ, just like it does on the icons. The saints-those who are to be saved, in router words the Orthodox Church-will fly in the air to meet Christ. But sinners and all non-Orthodox will be separated from the Elect. The damned will be pushed and prodded by devils down through the fire, down from the Valley of Joseph, past here-in fact exactly the route those Israeli hikers took today-down, down to the Mouth of Hell.''Is that nearby?''Certainly,' said Theophanes, stroking his beard. 'The Mouth of Hell will open up near the Dead Sea.''That is in the Bible?' 'Of course,' said Theophanes. 'Everything I am telling you is true.
— William Dalrymple, From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
The only real escape from hell is to conquer it.
— Scott Hawkins, The Library at Mount Char
Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of Adolf Hitler and Judas Iscariot handing out ice-skates and went on heaving sandbags.
— Stephen King, It
I’ve been going through my own personal hell.
— Amanda Laneley, What I Love About Dublin
Hell isn’t fire and brimstone. It’s New York City.
— Karina Halle, Veiled
People say things are going to be Hell without even the slightest notion of what Hell is.
— Karina Halle, Veiled
Karma and Hell are the cowards revenge
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
We're all going to hell anyway, why not enjoy the ride?
— Robert Ferrigno, Heart of the Assassin
A god without wrath, without intimidation, without punishment, without hell? It would be a paper tiger, a teddy bear!
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Someone once joked, Hell is other people. But the truth is that connection to other people can be sacred. Why else did God give so many people life? (Adam was't enough.) Or more simply, why else would He design hands that so perfectly clasp?
— Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland
Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights
— Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped
Ortez sauntered over to the nearest wall intercom. "Bridge, this is the captain -- what the hell's going on up there? I didn't schedule a combat drill for today." Hell, it occurred to him -- he hadn't scheduled any kind of drill for at least four months. On the other end of the line, young 2nd lieutenant Cedric Pankow, the com officer, let it fall.
— Christina Engela, Space Sucks!
It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
Someone probably a lot smarter than me said hell is other people. I say you're in hell when you don't give to someone who needs, because you can't bear to have less.
— Joe Hill, The Fireman
A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate, cannot be taken very seriously.
— Aldous Huxley, The Devils of Loudun
Archie asked me if I knew Dante's definition of hell..."Proximity without intimacy," he said.
— Melissa Bank, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing
Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful purgatory between for you and me to wait in until good behavior or forbearance or shame or repentance overtakes us.
— William Faulkner, The Wild Palms
I do not know if hell is hot or cold, or what sort of place hell may be, but this I surely know, that if there is any hell at all it will be badly lit. And it will taste like a train.
— H.G. Wells, The World Of William Clissold Vol. 2
I never will suggest you to drink energy drinks, they taste like hell!
— Deyth Banger
Hell is so bloody thing, but with Lucifer from Lucifer series, hell is like comedy.
— Deyth Banger
We do and say useless and pointless stuff and words, if we think little deeper why we go and masturbate?? (No,... No don't change the page... don't close it or whatever do.... look me right in the face and listen it's not a shit... it's how the matrix is build)... well... let's start from here... we masturbate and after all in the other day or after few days we will do it again..., we eat food and after all we eat again and again until we die... we say useless words and after all who in the hell to know why, we do that???But after all from this useless words comes the one useful story if the useless words didn't exist... it won't also exist the advange called itself "story".
— Deyth Banger
Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life is hard enough without being punished for it afterwards. We get comfort when we die, that's the whole idea
— Tove Jansson, The Summer Book
Hell is having arms but no-one to embrace.
— Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Heaven and Hell
The victim mindset will have you dancing with the devil, then complaining that you're in hell.
— Steve Maraboli
She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.
— John Scalzi, Old Man's War
Darker the hell, darker the life...darker the death, darker the fear..." the painter's left-hand fingers where drenched in black color, which he kept on scrolling on white paper until he made a... "Raven...darkest like hell and life...raven darkest like fear and death...raven...nevermore
— Rao Umar Javed, A Painter, A Performer, A Poet and A Madman
Nice work," he said.I grinned."You look like hell, though," he noted."I doubt hell has this much Kool-Aid," I replied.
— Brandon Sanderson, Firefight
She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seven foreign languages . . .
— Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children
People are stupid, because of watching the same over and over and over and over - which goes as far as I can tell hell.
— Deyth Banger
What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had heard them crying out of their slothfulness in the day of their visitation, and wishing that they had but another life to live, and that God would but try them once again; one crying out of this neglect of duty, and another of his loitering and trifling, when he should have been labouring for his life; what manner of person would you have been after such a sight as this ? (284)
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indeed he made a downright hell of it.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol 1
That's how most things are," Gus replied sagely. "The theory is clean and polished, but the execution is usually an ugly, complicated mess.
— Alex Hansen, The New Devil
The careless, the lukewarm Catholics should, above all, dread hell, for he is continually walking on the brink of the infernal abyss. He makes little of the precepts of hearing Mass, of the prescribed abstinence from flesh meat, he scruples not neglecting the religious training of his children, he associates with persons and frequents places that are to him an occasion of sin, he yields to impure thoughts, commits sins of impurity without remorse, gives way to his vindictive feelings against his neighbor, indulges in excess in eating and drinking, neglects prayer and the sacraments. Now is the time for him to be aroused from his life of sin, now is the time for him to give up sin and change his life, for if he defers doing so, it may soon be to late. This may, indeed, be the last warning that God gives him.
— Fr. Martin von Cochem
This is the moment I realize that our traumas never really go away. They live inside of us, in the deepest darkest pits of our own tiny hells. Cocked and loaded, waiting for someone to come along and pull the trigger.
— A. Zavarelli, Crow
You will know you are in love when it doesn't matter if you sit in heaven or hell with that special someone just as long as they can make you laugh, while you put out the fires.
— Shannon L. Alder
Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'a match when ye're lightin' one of they godless cigarettes? Ay. It stings wi' a fearful pain, doan't it? And ye run away to clap a bit o' butter on it to take the pain away. Ah, but' (an impressive pause) 'there'll be no butter in hell!
— Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm
The definition of hell is two people in a relationship that is starved for love and unable to fulfill that need.
— Shannon L. Alder
Why I would sell the whole world for a single kopek, just so that nobody would bother me. Should the world go to hell, or should I go without my tea now? I'll say let the world go to hell so long as I can have my tea whenever I want it.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Arturo Bandini was pretty sure that he wouldn't go to hell when he died. The way to hell was the committing of mortal sin. He had committed many, he believed, but the confessional had saved him. He always got to confession on time — that is, before he died. And he knocked on wood whenever he thought of it — he always would get there on time — before he died. So Arturo was pretty sure he wouldn't go to hell when he died. For two reasons. The confessional, and the fact that he was a fast runner.
— John Fante, Wait Until Spring, Bandini
Hell is repetition, you go over and over and over. That's hell, so I will eat your eyes in hell, I will be waiting you in hell, I will repeat that over and over and over...
— Deyth Banger
Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Any religion which uses the words such as hell, fire, curse, burning, amputating can never be a religion of love because a religion of love must only use the language of love, must only use only the sweet words of affection, not the words of darkness and torture!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
No one believes in Hell--until they get there.
— R.A. Mathis, Ghosts of Babylon
Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
So I sang out the barbarous words - karaoke from Hell.
— Grant Morrison, Nameless
...those occasional people who seem to achieve some kind of happiness here like your two dead colleagues, these are the things that Hell allows to flourish in tiny, stunted bursts, to make it immeasurably worse for everyone else.
— Simon Kurt Unsworth, The Devil's Detective
You won't find angels in hell, only demons that know how to play with yours.
— Shannon L. Alder
Through me you go to the grief wracked city; Through me you go to everlasting pain; Through me you go a pass among lost souls. Justice inspired my exalted Creator: I am a creature of the Holiest Power, of Wisdom in the Highest and of Primal Love. Nothing till I was made was made, only eternal beings. And I endure eternally. Surrender as you enter, every hope you have.
— Dante Alighieri, Inferno
Somehow, I think God will forgive her. If not, eh, Hell has better parties anyway.
— C.T. Phipps, The Rules of Supervillainy
He loved me.Noah Hutchins had told me he loved me, and that had made the past week at school absolute hell.
— Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits
Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras,Hoc opus, hic labor est.(The gates of Hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and view the cheerful skies,In this task and mighty labor lies.)
— Virgil, The Aeneid
THIS QUOTE CONTAINS SPOILERS FROM UNFORGIVEN"This whole time, I've been in Hell?" She stepped away from Cam, out of the spotlight and into darkness."Because of you.
— Lauren Kate, Unforgiven
God's plan will never look easy when you are sitting in hell. KEEP MOVING!
— Shannon L. Alder
The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.
— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
I do have nightmares. So what? I wouldn’t trade places with any of the f**kers I killed. Am I afraid of Hell? No. I’ve been. It’s worse than advertised but not as bad as imagined. ~ Brandon Hull
— Jayden Hunter, Undressed To The Nines
Living in a stupid country is living in a marsh! You are surrounded by the reptiles and the alligators! Refusing hell is the best path to eliminate the hell!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I cannot imagine a more perfect hell than being trapped inside my own mind.
— Beth Revis, The Body Electric
I hadn’t even left my room and already my day had taken a U-turn straight to hell.
— Bianca Scardoni, Inception
I only care about the helped less, and the helpless, not the helpfest or the hellfest.
— Justin K. McFarlane Beau
What the hell kind of Hell was this supposed to be?
— Jim Butcher, Ghost Story
Hell says hallelujah when fools say amen without understanding or applying truth to their lives.
— Eveth Colley
I have wrote my name in hell,” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.
— James Purdy, Narrow Rooms
Ain't good to talk too much about infernal affairs if you can avoid it. Tends to make certain things stand up and pay attention.
— Laura  Oliva, Season Of The Witch
Rationalizing is another road that leads to hell.
— Shannon L. Alder
The doors of Hell are never bolted or barred, to those who belong there.
— Simon R. Green, Mean Streets
Hell’s got IT?Yes, of course. Who do you think invented Candy Crush?
— Gwynn Marssen
Pastor Russell lived in nearby Pittsburgh and said that there was no hell. This was terrible for we all knew that everyone but the Baptists were going there, so to believe there was no hell upset all the countryside theology.
— Ammon Hennacy, The Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist
Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's despair.
— Angelus Silesius, Selections from The Cherubinic Wanderer
I will track right on down to hell to pull your ass out of the fire.
— Amanda Mosher, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
when you're going through hell, keep going.
— Winston S. Churchill
In the religion these words ‘save me’ were created to suppress the truth of the human life. These words ‘save me’, indicates that you are sinner and so you are uttering these words. But see how wonderful the human life is! Yes, I am Universal. Upanishad is saying ‘Amritasya Putrah’ (Sons of Amrita or Immortal self). What a wonderful version! And in that case they are crying ‘save me’! Upanishads created heaven by saying ‘Sons of Immortal self’ and on the contrary they have created hell by uttering the words ‘Save me’.
— Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Jingle bells, they ring in hell,never to be merry,they'll burn, they'll burn,please my dear be weary
— Eva N.
That was his cover story. Architecture… a job that would take him out of town often and would require long hours and meetings that wouldn’t allow him to answer his phone. Of course, he had to have a good cover. Cell coverage in Hell was spotty.
— Danielle James, Savior
O me, this place is hell.
— John Webster, The White Devil
Damnation is eternal. That’s the whole point. Otherwise, what good would it do you?
— Forrest Carr
In life, I always thought that an Atheist values life much more than any follower of any religion. I believe in that now more than ever. Hell has strengthened that opinion.
— J.C. Wickhart, Devil's Lamb
Lucifer wasn't sure what to say. He'd survived six thousand years in Hell, but the past sixty without her were the most torturous of his existence.
— J.M. Darhower, Reignite
Madeleine Albright says, “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.” I wonder what happens to women who bully other women.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it's great!"—Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs, television murders, Bolivian starvation, thieves in silk, thieves in neckties, thieves in office, paper shufflers, bureaucrats, insult, rage, dismay, horror, terrified nightmares, secret death of hangovers, cancer, ulcers, strangulation, pus, old age, old age homes, canes, puffed flesh, dropped teeth, stink, tears, and goodbye. Somebody else write it, I dont know how.
— Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels
And he began, "What chance or destinyhas brought you here before your final day?And who is he who leads your pilgrimage?""Up there in life beneath the quiet starsI lost my way," I answered, "in a valley,before I'd reached the fullness of my age.I turned my shoulders on it yesterday:this soul appeared as I was falling back,and by the road through Hell he leads me home.""Follow your star and you will never fail to find your glorious port," he said to me
— Dante Alighieri
So if the Infernum is an empy interior, what's Heaven in their conception?" I asked, nudging him."A second inside-out house, inside, or rather 'outside' the first," he said. "If you cross its threshold, you realize our world, for all its wonder, has been but a shdow, another kind of empitness. Heaven is more than this.
— Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale
This, explained the angel, is hell. The people do not love each other. They only want to feed themselves.
— David Mitchell, Ghostwritten
May we never go to hell, but always be on our way!
— Brie_Cee