Hell Quotes - Page 13

• The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

  Regina Brett

  Phones, Circles, Ideas

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• They build their own Hells.

  Jack Kerouac

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• What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heaven, Peaceful, Calm

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Joy, Sensual

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.77, Soho Press

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• If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Seven, Hunts

  "How did that mind-blowing 'Game of Thrones' duel play out in the book?" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Sweat, Today, Nine

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• As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Cry, Imagine, Seven

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• It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

  Michelle Sagara

  Believe, Reality, Perfect

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• Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Motivational, Death, Anger

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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  If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

  RuPaul

  Beauty, Being Yourself, Strong Women

  Song: Can I Get an Amen, Album: Born Naked

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• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  Ray Kroc

  Business, Mcdonalds, Entrepreneur

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am my own heaven and hell!

  Friedrich Schiller

  Self Esteem, Self Respect, Heaven

  Robert David MacDonald, Friedrich Schiller (2005). “Schiller: Volume One”, p.140, Oberon Books

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• Hell of a thing when a man's got good health, plenty of money and absolutely nothing to do.

  Harrison Ford

  Men, Aging, Good Health

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• Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

  John Milton

  May, Riches, Soil

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 690 (1667)

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• Should I worship Him from fear of hell, may I be cast into it. Should I serve Him from desire of gaining heaven, may He keep me out. But should I worship Him from love alone, He reveals Himself to me, that my whole heart may be filled with His love and presence.

  Sadhu Sundar Singh

  Heart, Heaven, Desire

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• From the moment of my birth, the angels of anxiety, worry, and death stood at my side, followed me out when I played, followed me in the sun of springtime and in the glories of summer. They stood at my side in the evening when I closed my eyes, and intimidated me with death, hell, and eternal damnation.

  Edvard Munch

  Summer, Eye, Angel

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• It was very difficult.
  We don't advertise this much, but those years that we went through were hell.
  I don't want to overstate the situation, but everything was mortgaged to the hilt, cash was a real problem, and it did limit what we were able to do.

  Gina Rinehart

  Inspirational, Business, Real

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• People tend to look at dancers like we are these little jewels, little cardboard cut outs, and yet we have blood and guts and go through Hell.

  Susan Jaffe

  Dance, Cutting, Blood

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• There are no physicists in the hottest parts of hell, because the existence of a hottest part implies a temperature difference, and any marginally competent physicist would immediately use this to run a heat engine and make some other part of hell comfortably cool. This is obviously impossible.

  Richard Davisson

  Running, Science, Differences

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• If you're going thru hell, keep going.

  Rob Estes

  Break Up, Hope, Sadness

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• The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,
  Is my vision's greatest enemy.
  Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,
  Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.
  Thine loves the same world that mine hates,
  Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

  William Blake

  Hate, Doors, Heaven

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin

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• It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

  Jan Struther

  Spiritual, Years, Confusion

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• When you learn to love hell you will be in heaven.

  Thaddeus Golas

  Spiritual, Heaven, Spirituality

  Thaddeus Golas (2002). “The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment”, p.110, Gibbs Smith

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• And once we have the condition of peace and joy in us, we can afford to be in any situation. Even in the situation of hell, we will be able to contribute our peace and serenity. The most important thing is for each of us to have some freedom in our heart, some stability in our heart, some peace in our heart. Only then will we be able to relieve the suffering around us.

  Nhat Hanh

  Spiritual, Heart, Joy

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