Hell On Earth Quotes

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

  Friedrich Holderlin

  Men, Heaven, Earth

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Hell

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.164, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

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• I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

  Neil Gaiman

  Monday, Thinking, Hell

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• Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.

  Gia Carangi

  Pain, Mistake, Life And Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Believe, Men, Earth

  Michael Morpurgo (2004). “Private Peaceful”, HarperCollins Children's Books

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• I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

  Liza Minnelli

  Believe, Heaven, Earth

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• What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, People, Expectations

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Damned”, p.6, Random House

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• We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin.

  Tupac Shakur

  Heaven, Dumb, Hell

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• Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.

  Steve Redhead

  Heaven, Earth, Life Is

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• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Karl Popper

  Paradise On Earth, Keeping Promises, Kept Promises

  "In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments". Book by Jon Winokur, p. 144, 2005.

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• I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Heaven, Earth

  C. S. Lewis (1984). “The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis”, p.134, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away.

  Whitley Strieber

  Moving, Dark, Agony

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• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, Tired, Blood

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  The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Suffering, Quality

  "Strange Innocence". Interview with J. T. LeRoy, July 2001.

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• Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

  Peter A. Levine

  Earth, Ptsd, Hell

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• The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth.

  Marilyn Manson

  Ideas, Creating, Heaven

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• As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

  Jane Siberry

  Land, Creating, People

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• I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.

  Ryan Montgomery

  Men, People, Earth

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

  Rob Bell

  People, Earth, Hell

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• The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.

  Eric Weiner

  Mean, Men, Thinking

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• There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Thinking, Earth, Screwtape Letters

  1942 The Screwtape Letters, preface.

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• I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

  Mike Dirnt

  Party, Optimistic, Thinking

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• The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

  Duane Chapman

  Earth, Prison, Hell

  "Duane "Dog" Chapman: What I've Learned" by Kendall Hamilton, www.esquire.com. January 7, 2009.

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• We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened... But they have to. This was hell on earth.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Earth, Telling The Truth, Hell

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