Quotes on Hell

Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?

If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell that during evolution some species—including man—crawled, fled onto some small continents of solid land, where the Lessons of Darkness continue.

The man who gets me is getting one hell of a woman.

If you believe that there’s a heaven and hell . . . how much do you have to hate somebody to believe that everlasting life is possible and not tell them that?

Mediocrity is my biggest fear. I'm not afraid of total failure because I don't think that will happen. I'm not afraid of success because that beats the hell out of failure. It's being in the middle that scares me.

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

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live it the same way. Maybe a few changes here or there, but nothing special. The truth is, honey, I've enjoyed my life. I've had a hell of a good time.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

When there's no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the Earth.

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men.

The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings.