Hell Quotes

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

"What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Give her hell from us, Peeves."

J.K. Rowling

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."

C.S. Lewis

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

Oscar Wilde

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."

Aldous Huxley

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"

Christopher Hitchens

"I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine."

Peter Ustinov

"I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died."

Sylvia Plath

"Telling an introvert to go to a party is like telling a saint to go to Hell."

Criss Jami

"Piece of Heaven?""No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking."

Richelle Mead

"The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options."

Bill Hicks

"So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family."

George Carlin

"Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actually go to hell."

Anne Rice

"Let this hell be our heaven."

Richard Matheson

"Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies."

Omar Khayyám

"When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if he went to hell he would put out all the fires"

Jodi Picoult

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell."

Thomas Fuller

"I love you,"Matt said.I love you, too,"Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it."If I have a soul, I'll go with you,"promised Matt."

Nancy Farmer

"Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it."

Alysha Speer

"I'm offering you love on a stick. If you'd like, you can grab it to go. It’s like a popsicle, only it won’t melt if you put it through hell like you did with you last boyfriend."

Jarod Kintz

"Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?"

Christopher Marlowe

"God hides the fires of hell within paradise."

Paulo Coelho

"Once I was free in the shackles of sin:Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;Free to be captive to any desire;Free to eternally burn in hell’s fire.‘Til Someone bought me and called me His slave:Bound by commands I am free to obey;Captive by beauty I’m free to adore--Sentenced to sit at His feet evermore."

John F. MacArthur Jr.

"I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."

Isaac Asimov

"After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?"

E.M. Forster

"girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinminethankyou."

Charles Bukowski

"Hell is truth known too late."

J.C. Ryle

"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment'."

Andy Warhol

"So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray."

Oscar Wilde

"The world is a goddamned evil place, the strong prey on the weak, the rich on the poor; I’ve given up hope that there is a God that will save us all. How am I supposed to believe that there’s a heaven and a hell when all I see now is hell."

Aaron B. Powell

"The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it."

John Lubbock

"Never pity missionaries; envy them. They are where the real action is -- where life and death, sin and grace, Heaven and Hell converge."

Robert C. Shannon

"God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again."

Thomas Harris

"Faith is about going through hell, coming out with some scars, and becoming a wiser person from the lessons you’ve learned along the way. You must take the scars of your past and appreciate them for what they have taught you. You also have to take the scars, the lessons of your past and not let them control your future…."

James A. Murphy

"Those who meet Jesus always experience either joy or its opposites, either foretastes of Heaven or foretastes of Hell. Not everyone who meets Jesus is pleased, and not everyone is happy, but everyone is shocked."

Peter Kreeft

"I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school."

Libba Bray

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved."

Anonymous

"Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people."

Charles Baudelaire

"If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell."

Leonard Ravenhill

"In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls."

Omar Khayyám

"If people were employed at creating heaven on earth, everybody would be happy; instead each one is creating his own heaven by creating hell for others."

Bangambiki Habyarimana

"When you've succeeded, you'd say:'Indeed I'd to go through those hell before fit into all of this happiness."

Toba Beta

"No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?""They go to hell," was my ready and orthodox answer."And what is hell? Can you tell me that?""A pit full of fire.""And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?""No, sir.""What must you do to avoid it?"I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die."

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

"Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking."

Richelle Mead, The Indigo Spell

"Jesus didn't speak of hell so that we could study, debate and write books about it. He gave us these passages so that we would live holy lives. Jesus evidently hates it when we tear into our brothers or sisters with demeaning words, words that fail to honor the people around us as the beautiful image-bearing creatures that they are."

Francis Chan, Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up

"Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!"

Michael Bassey Johnson

"Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell."

Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

"God Is, Lucifer is a devil, and there is a Hell."

E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World Volume 1

"Zoroastrianism? Oh, there’s never been but a few hundred thousand of them at any one time, mostly located in Iran and India, but that’s it. The one true faith. If you’re not a Zoroastrian, I’m afraid you are bound for Hell.”The man looked stunned and shocked. "It's not fair." The demon gave a mirthful laugh. “Well, it was fair when you were sending all the Chinese to Hell who had never heard of Jesus. Wasn’t it?"

Steven L. Peck

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