Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Hell

Quotes about: Hell

• If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Animal, Would Be, Criminal Mind

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “Collected Works”, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

• If it's just a symbol, then
  to hell with it !

  Flannery O'Connor

  Hell, Symbols, Ifs

• But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell. Hell seems a great deal more feasible to my weak mind than heaven. No doubt because hell is a more earth-seeming thing. I can fancy the tortures of the damned but I cannot imagine the disembodied souls hanging in a crystal for all eternity praising God.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Believe, People, Heaven

• Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Children, Missing, Hell

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.244, Macmillan

• Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Hell, Wells, Symbols

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.125, Macmillan

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