Quotes on Hell

There are no infidels anywhere but on earth: there are none in heaven, and there are none in hell. Atheism is a strange thing. Even the devils never fell into that vice, for the devils believe and tremble. And there are some of the devil's children that have gone beyond their father in sin, but how will it look when they are for ever lost?

While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

O you beast! _x000D_ _x000D_ I'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, _x000D_ _x000D_ That you shall think the devil is come from hell.

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.

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

Hell and heaven are within you, both gates are within you. When you are behaving unconsciously there is the gate of hell; when you become alert and conscious, there is the gate of heaven.

You have to know accounting. It's the language of practical business life. It was a very useful thing to deliver to civilization. I've heard it came to civilization through Venice which of course was once the great commercial power in the Mediterranean. However, double entry bookkeeping was a hell of an invention.

Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves.

I don't believe in heaven and hell. I don't know if I believe in God. All I know is that as an individual, I won't allow this life - the only thing I know to exist - to be wasted.

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

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

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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

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

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.