Hell Quotes - Page 4

• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  Isaac Asimov

  Life, Atheist, Believe

  "Philosophy on the Go". Book by Joey Green, p. 222, 2007.

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• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Self, Limits, Mephistopheles

  Christopher Marlowe (1826). “The works of Christopher Marlowe”, p.139

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• When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament'.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Fire

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• I never want to get to the point where it's all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.

  Drew Barrymore

  Needs, Want

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• Hell is full of good intentions.

  Thomas Gray

  Good Intentions, Intention

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• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.

  Carl Sandburg

  Hard Work, Effort, Would Be

  Carl Sandburg (2015). “The People, Yes”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.

  Richard Bach

  Inspiration, Consciousness, No Love

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• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Harry S. Truman

  Witty, Political, Six Months

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• Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Always Alone, Figures, Projection

  The Cocktail Party act 1, sc. 3 (1950)

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  Lord Byron

  Thinking, Humanity, Devil

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2725, Delphi Classics

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• Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heaven, Half, Might

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• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Humanity, Religion

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• Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

  Charles Barkley

  Fans, Beats

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. November 22, 2004.

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• There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

  Tommy Docherty

  Football

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• To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

  Will Carleton

  Appreciate, Heaven, Fifteen

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• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Political, Want, Study

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• If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Phoenix, Heaven, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny, Government, Afterlife

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• We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

  Karl Popper

  Love, Religious, War

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.479, Routledge

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• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  e. e. cummings

  Sarcastic, Mistake, Moving

  1927 'Why I Like America', in Vanity Fair, May.

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• Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opposites, Knowing, Joy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.51, Penguin

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Courtesy, Manners

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

  Ben Harper

  Funny, Life, Heaven

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• Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Revelations

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Devil, Rays

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