Hell Quotes - Page 23

• We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

  Lance Armstrong

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Cancer

  "Why I'm not angry at Lance Armstrong" by Sally Jenkins, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2012.

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• Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not. The real war will never get in the books.

  Walt Whitman

  Memorial Day, Real, War

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Specimen Days & Collect”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• I don't know about bores. Maybe you shouldn't feel too sorry if you see some swell girl getting married to them. They don't hurt anybody most of them, and maybe they're all terrific whistlers or something. Who the hell knows? Not me.

  J. D. Salinger

  Girl, Hurt, Sorry

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• I have tried if I could reach that great resolution . . . to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

  Thomas Browne

  Honesty, Heaven, Being Honest

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 47.

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• I'm like a duck: calm above the water, and paddling like hell underneath.

  Fred Shero

  Ducks, Water, Training

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• To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Life Lesson, Luck, Old Man

  "Old Man and the Sea".

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• We live in a self-organizing and self-correcting universe. For every problem, there is a potentially miraculous solution. A closed heart deflects the miracle, while an open heart brings it forth....In every moment, we make a choice between the heavenly awareness of our connection to all living things, or the hell of the delusion that we are separate and alone. The mind will manufacture according to our choice; whichever we choose, we will seem to experience.

  Marianne Williamson

  Heart, Self, Choices

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• People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

  Tyler Perry

  Hurt, People, Trying

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• I really feel that if you're gonna be good, you gotta practice... Practice whatever the hell you do.

  Ray Charles

  Practice, Be Good, Feels

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• If strength is measured by intelligence, honesty and depth of character, then yes, strong women are hot as hell.

  Paget Brewster

  Strong Women, Honesty, Character

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• Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.

  Russell Means

  Country, War, Men

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• This is not to be cocky, but, I go over real well at Comic-Con. I've done quite a few Comic-Cons, and I enjoy the hell out of them. They are so much fun, and so bizarre. I've done the FX Show in Florida, Wizard-World in Chicago, Comic-Con in San Diego, Wonder-Con in San Francisco, the Comic-Con in New York, and I've done them numerous times.

  Kristen Bell

  New York, Fun, Real

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• 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.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Bores You, Boredom

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

  Antonin Artaud

  Pain, Work, Writing

  Antonin Artaud, Susan Sontag (1976). “Antonin Artaud, Selected Writings”, p.497, Univ of California Press

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• Aw, I feel bad if [Taylor] was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl. That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff.

  Amy Poehler

  Girl, Feminist, Upset

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• It's the closest to death I have ever been. The chemotherapy takes you as far down into hell as you've ever, ever been.

  Melissa Etheridge

  Cancer, Chemotherapy, Closest

  "Stone Phillips: 15 Years of Dateline". "Dateline" NBC (The Profiles in Courage) with Stone Phillips, www.nbcnews.com. July 2, 2007.

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• I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Men, Wish

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• War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.

  Milan Kundera

  War, Fighting, Years

  "Immortality". Book by Milan Kundera, 1990.

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• I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

  Martin Luther King, Jr.'s acceptance speech on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1964.

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• Let's concede that we have decided to let our children grow up in two separate nations, and lead two separate kinds of lives. If, on the other hand, we have the courage to rise to this challenge to name what's happening within our inner-city schools, then we also need the courage to be activist and go out and fight like hell to change it.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Growing Up, Children, School

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• There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Writing, Rejection, Suffering

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 68), 1862.

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• The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Character, Land

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• Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over.

  Charles Baxter

  Writing, Friendly, Want

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• I've known several cases of writers who decide to write about something and they research the hell out of it and when they're ready to write, they can't move because they are so burdened. I start writing. Whatever I need somehow comes to hand.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Moving, Writing, Hands

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• Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, May, Matter

  "Somewhat Less Sinister Ducks". Personal Website, journal.neilgaiman.com. April 23, 2004.

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