Hell Quotes - Page 6

• Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

  Bonnie Raitt

  God, Faith, Spiritual

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• Well actually I don't think it's a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God's grace.

  Rick Warren

  Thinking, Rejection, Grace

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• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists - that is why they invented hell.

  Bertrand Russell

  Cynical, Religion, Atheism

  Sceptical Essays "On the Value of Scepticism" (1928)

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• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tired, Blood

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• An infernal machine that produces every minute an impressive amount of poor, 26 million poor in 10 years are 2.6 million per year of new poor, this is the road, well, the road to hell.

  Hugo Chavez

  Years, Machines, Poor

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• From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  World, Way, Sides

  "Tusculan Disputations", Book I. 43. 104, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 362-64,

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  The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Suffering, Quality

  "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.

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• Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.

  Homer

  Heart, Literature, Hateful

  Homer (1871). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.234

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• The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell within myself.

  Thomas Browne

  Heart, Men, Devil

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.100

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• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  W. H. Auden

  Assembly, Factories, Walks

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.

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• There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.

  Dante Alighieri

  Wall, Circles, Iron

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• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Funny, Women, Heaven

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  Harry S. Truman

  Inspirational, Funny, Truth

  Harry S. Truman, Ralph Keyes (1995). “Wit and wisdom of Harry Truman”, Harpercollins

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• I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Religious, Atheist, If There Is A God

  "Jesus : Myth Or Reality?". Book by Ian Curtis, 2006.

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• I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

  Alex Ferguson

  Sports, Football, Believe

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

  Sylvia Plath

  Two, Neurosis, Bell Jar

  The Bell Jar ch. 8 (1963)

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• ... when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Heaven, World, Mephistopheles

  Doctor Faustus act 2, sc. 1 (1604)

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• Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

  Robert Herrick

  Comfort, Pits

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

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• The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

  Aleister Crowley

  Religious, Doors, People

  "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 3, 1969.

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• Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

  William Blake

  Love, Life, Broken Heart

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'The Clod and the Pebble'

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• Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, War, Evil

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Thoughtful, Love Is

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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