Hell Quotes - Page 12

• I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

  Elinor Wylie

  Imagination, Heaven, Inheritance

  Elinor Wylie (1934). “The Novels of Elinor Wylie”

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• Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Happiness, Sadness, Sorrow

  Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (1962). “Selected poems”

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• I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.

  Thom Yorke

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• If I wanted to develop a scenario to destroy America, I would do what the Republicans are doing. Take the brightest and best young black men off the streets, put them in jail, make them meaner than hell for 8 or 10 years and then turn them lose in a society where there are plenty of guns for them to play with.

  Andrew Young

  Gun, Men, Years

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• The idea of being stuck in a plane with dozens of people chatting over each other on their phones might feel like Dante's 10th circle of hell.

  Regina Brett

  Phones, Circles, Ideas

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• I worked for a while as a teaching assistant while I was struggling. I really enjoyed it, working with kids with special needs, autism. It takes a hell of a lot of concentration, and you've got to focus on the child properly for seven hours a day.

  Joseph Mawle

  Children, Struggle, Teaching

  "Joseph Mawle: 'I've played some despicable characters'". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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• They build their own Hells.

  Jack Kerouac

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• What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heaven, Peaceful, Calm

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  Stephen Fry

  Pain, Joy, Sensual

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.77, Soho Press

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• If you die before you say her name, ser, I will hunt you through all seven hells.

  George R. R. Martin

  Names, Seven, Hunts

  "How did that mind-blowing 'Game of Thrones' duel play out in the book?" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. June 2, 2014.

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• I've spared with demons from the Nine Hells themselves, I shall barely break a sweat here today.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Sweat, Today, Nine

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• As you can imagine, those who had fallen this far had been so worn down by their tortures in the seven other hells that they no longer had the strength to cry out.

  Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

  Cry, Imagine, Seven

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• It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

  Michelle Sagara

  Believe, Reality, Perfect

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• Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

  William Saroyan

  Motivational, Death, Anger

  William Saroyan (1934). “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, and Other Stories”, p.13, New Directions Publishing

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  If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?

  RuPaul

  Beauty, Being Yourself, Strong Women

  Song: Can I Get an Amen, Album: Born Naked

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• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  Ray Kroc

  Business, Mcdonalds, Entrepreneur

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

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• Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Courage, Sea, Land

  Samuel Rutherford (1863). “Letters of Samuel Rutherford: With a Sketch of His Life”, p.92

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• When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Dance, Giving, Devil

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• Boy, when you're dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do die somebody has sense enough to just dump me in the river or something. Anything except sticking me in a goddam cemetery. People coming and putting a bunch of flowers on your stomach on Sunday, and all that crap. Who wants flowers when you're dead?

  J. D. Salinger

  Death, Hope, Flower

  J. D. SALINGER (1951). “THE CATCHER IN THE RYE”

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• Hell is other people at breakfast.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Food, People, Breakfast

  1945 Huis clos.

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• We are such docile creatures, normally, that it takes a virus to jolt us out of life's routine. A couple of days in a fever bed are, in a sense, health-giving; the change in body temperature, the change in pulse , and the change of scene have a restorative effect on the system equal to the hell they raise.

  E. B. White

  Couple, Health, Giving

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• To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

  Erich Fromm

  Hope, Mean, Birth

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.22, Lantern Books

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• Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

  Will Cuppy

  Spring, Humor, Hay Fever

  Letter to Max Eastman, 1936.

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• When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

  Ayn Rand

  Hope, Crazy, Inspiration

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.103, Penguin

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• The jealous man lives in hell. Drop comparing and jealousy disappears, meanness disappears, phoniness disappears. But you can drop it only if you start growing your inner treasures; there is no other way.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Men, Growing

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