Hell Quotes

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Philosophy, Crazy

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• I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

  Martin Luther

  Scripture, Students, Holy

  Martin Luther (1970). “Three Treatises”, p.100, Fortress Press

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  Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Evil, Tempest

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

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• Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Devil, Rewards

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Prayer, Religion

  "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit".

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• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Bruce Lee

  Motivation, Don't Give Up, Positivity

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• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Paradise

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• Hell is paved with good samaritans.

  William Holden

  Witty, Powerful, Humorous

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• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

  Ben Jonson

  No Fear, Prisoner, Greater

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• Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

  George Herbert

  Wish, Literature, Different Meanings

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.146

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• Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

  Philip James Bailey

  Hate, Wrath, Sin

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.325

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• Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

  John Donne

  Joy, Serenity, Heaven

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• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

  R. A. Torrey

  Heaven, Company, Go To Hell

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• The cunning livery of hell.

  William Shakespeare

  Cunning

  William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Mr. Theobald (Lewis) (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.105

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Evil, World, Criminal Mind

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

  John Calvin

  Soul, Criminal Mind, Torture

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Gilbert Josiah Hotchkiss, p. 157, 1895.

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• Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

  Philip James Bailey

  Evil, Bearable, Nothingness

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.36

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• I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.

  Billy Graham

  Believe, Hard Times, Thinking

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• The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

  Lucretius

  Men, Leaving, Darkness

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 37,

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• An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? No, said the priest, not if you did not know. Then why, asked the Inuit earnestly, did you tell me?

  Annie Dillard

  Life, Religion, Atheism

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ch. 7 (1974)

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• One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

  H. L. Mencken

  Prejudice, Literature, World

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• If you are going to go through hell, keep going

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

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• How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?

  Orlando Bloom

  Heart, My Heart

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