Hell Quotes - Page 28

• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  Adolf Hitler

  Clever, Lying, Rise To Power

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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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• If I owned Texas and Hell, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell.

  Philip Sheridan

  War, Texas, Texan

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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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• Sometimes I think, 'To hell with acting' and then I realize I could be working at a shoe shop. Acting is much cooler.

  Robert Pattinson

  Thinking, Careers, Shoes

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

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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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• It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

  James Mattis

  Peace, Fun, Military

  "General: It's 'fun to shoot some people'". edition.cnn.com. February 4, 2005.

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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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• Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell.

  Mark Twain

  Letting Go, Book, Writing

  Mark Twain (1929). “Mark Twain's Letters”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Beware of self-indulgence. The romance surrounding the writing profession carries several myths: that one must suffer in order to be creative; that one must be cantankerous and objectionable in order to be bright; that ego is paramount over skill; that one can rise to a level from which one can tell the reader to go to hell. These myths, if believed, can ruin you. If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

  David Brin

  Believe, Writing, Skills

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• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  William Styron

  Pain, Writing, Feelings

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.9, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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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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• This morning I deleted the hyphen from "hell-bound" and made it one word; this afternoon I redivided it and restored the hyphen.

  Edwin Arlington Robinson

  Morning, Writing, Afternoon

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• Heaven is real and hell is real, and eternity is but a breath away.

  Billy Graham

  Real, Heaven, Eternity

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.126, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  Pressue is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

  Peyton Manning

  Football, Feels, Knows

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• I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

  Edvard Munch

  Photography, Long, Heaven

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• To hell with the rules. If it sounds right, then it is.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Music, Sound, Ifs

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• "I was not alone when I was in Goofy hell"

  Aristotle

  Creativity, Goofy, Not Alone

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