Hell Quotes - Page 5

• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  Robert Frost

  Rights, Political, Icy

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• A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

  Tennessee Williams

  Nature, Vacuums, Stuff

  Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) act 2. Cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 403:27

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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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

  Ben Jonson

  Heaven, Half, Venture

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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• I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

  Clarence Darrow

  Government, Misunderstood, Ifs

  As quoted in "Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do" by Peter McWilliams, from 2000 Years of Disbelief (1996) edited by James A Haught, p. 817,

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• Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Skulls, Religion, Priests

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 362-64, 1922.

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• [One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heaven, Looks, Speak

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2001). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Accountability, Vision, Done

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Broke

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

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• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Relationship, Marriage, Cynical

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• All right, then, I'll go to hell.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Go To Hell

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reality, Heaven, Secret

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  Billy Sunday

  Good Man, Preacher, Obtaining

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• Hell is paved with infants skulls.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Skulls, Infant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 362-364, 1922.

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• I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

  William Faulkner

  Care, Where You Are, I Don't Care

  William Faulkner (2013). “The Sound And The Fury”, p.160, Random House

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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