HELL QUOTES VII

quotations about Hell

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.

FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY

Notes from the Underground

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Hell is no less than the eternal and second death, in its utmost extent and terror, as, just in all respects the opposite to eternal life, 'tis the most finished misery of the wicked, wherein they are ternally separated from the pleasing perception of God, and the fruition of all kinds of good, confined in chains of despair and darkness, under the lively and afflicting sense of the punishing vengeance of the Deity, justly kindled and continually flaming against them for their offensive actions, and in a wise and equitable proportion to the measure of those offenses. So that they are filled with incessant stings and horrors of conscience, and tormented in soul and body with such painful and raging flames, as will forever distress, but never consume their bodies, or destroy a lively consciousness of guilt in their souls to all eternity.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


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

Gonzo Papers


I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go

NEIL GAIMAN

Season of Mists

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Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.

JAMES JOYCE

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man


Forever, we hear of hell. During the Middle Ages, people had nightmares that were filled with visions of it. They feared hell. Talk of hell went in and out of fashion. As the Catholic Church's power broke with the Protestant divisions, hell and its clost friends of spiritualism and witchcraft gained tenuous hold. Enlightenment eroded hell's horrors and civilization learned tolerance for the Underworld. Today we believe in hell, but we don't want to believe it could be waiting for us. Hell is cold. It is lonely. It is filled with the dispossessed, the bad, the ugly, and the things about which we choose not to remember. Hell is a leftover idea from our past that we could best do without. The problem is that it will not do without us.

S. KAYE SAUNDERS

Hell Exposed


I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.

WILLIAM BLAKE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Tags: William Blake


Perhaps people take umbrage at a God who condemns people to hell because they feel like they're already there.

CRAIG DETWEILER

A Purple State of Mind


A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

Misalliance


The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.

CLAY AIKEN

Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life


Hell doesn't make God less loving. It reveals the depth of his love, which went to hell and back for us.

PHIL MOORE

Straight to the Heart of Matthew


Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil


The Justice of God demands there be an everlasting hell, both as a punishment for the wicked and as a deterrent against those contemplating wickedness.

DAVID MICHAEL LINDSEY

The Woman and the Dragon


Hell's my wife's home town.

BOB DYLAN

"My Wife's Home Town"


Let me say to you here very clearly: it is my firm opinion, and it is my foremost conviction, and it is what I fervently preach, that HELL IS HOT.

SHELTON L. SMITH

Hell is for Real!


All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.

DOROTHY PARKER

"A Telephone Call"


If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Joy

Tags: Georges Bernanos