Hell Quotes - Page 23

• If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Consciousness, Raises, Ifs

  12 Copy quote

• Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

  Dolly Parton

  Love, Funny, Worry

  Twitter post from Jul 26, 2010

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong.

  Jimmy Webb

  Writing, Earth, Ifs

  14 Copy quote

• Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Music, Mom, Mother

  Augusten Burroughs (2010). “Running with Scissors: A Memoir”, p.254, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wandering around back stage at a willie Nelson concert is a bit like being the parrot on the shoulder of the guy who's running the Ferris wheel. It's not the best seat in the house, but you see enough lights, action, people, and confusion to make you wonder if anybody knows what the hell's going on. If you're sitting out front, of course, it all rolls along as smoothly as a German train schedule, but as Willie, like any great magician, would be the first to point out, the real show is never in the center ring. As Willie always says, Fortunately, we're not in control.

  Kinky Friedman

  Running, Real, Light

  Kinky Friedman (2008). “What Would Kinky Do?: How to Unscrew a Screwed-Up World”, p.104, Macmillan

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.

  Kris Kristofferson

  Writing, Cutting, Great Year

  34 Copy quote

• Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

  Tom T. Hall

  Home, Writing, Class

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  12 Copy quote

• Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Night, Dawn

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.66, Anchor

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your grip on creative life. You are becoming a neuter machine. You cannot love, even if you knew how to begin to love. Every thought is a devil, a hell-if you could do a lot of things over again, ah, how differently you would do them! You want to go home, back to the womb. You watch the world bang door after door in your face, numbly, bitterly. You have forgotten the secret you knew, once, ah, once, of being joyous, of laughing, of opening doors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Home, Cutting

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To hell with the cost, if it's a good story, I'll make it.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Funny, Witty, Cost

  4 Copy quote

• And by his smile, I knew that sullen hall, By his dead smile I knew we stood in Hell.

  Wilfred Owen

  Smile, Sullen, Halls

  1918 'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

  Melanie Chisholm

  Anniversary, Girl, Should Have

  53 Copy quote

• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Dark, Night

  Sonnet 147

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I saw that streak in him when he told me, 'Get the hell out of here or I'll wipe you out., I got the hell out of there, Liston really scared me.

  Muhammad Ali

  Boxing, Wipe, Saws

  4 Copy quote

• For the first and only time, I was more worried about getting hurt by the crowd than by the guy I was fighting. I got a pretty good blast when introduced. The crowd was hollering and raising hell. I looked around for my bodyguard, a colorful New York character named Wild Bill Lyons, who packed two pearl-handled pistols and used to talk a lot about his days in the West. Wild Bill was under the ring, hiding.

  Jack Dempsey

  Hurt, New York, Character

  53 Copy quote

• Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

  Mark Twain

  Love You, Inspiration, Enemy

  28 Copy quote

• We are to Plunder Hell to Populate Heaven for Calvary's sake

  Reinhard Bonnke

  Heaven, Sake, Plunder

  52 Copy quote

• I'm young. I'm 22. I'm still growing. I just feel like it's time for me to go up. After this fight, there really wouldn't be a reason for me to stay. I'm just going to go up and give the lightweights hell.

  Adrien Broner

  Fighting, Giving, Growing

  4 Copy quote

• The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

  J.P. Moreland

  Real, Feelings, Action

  31 Copy quote

• No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

  J.P. Moreland

  Littles, More Time, Needed

  14 Copy quote

• Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

  John Corey Whaley

  Fate, Dying Alone, People

  John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven.

  Dennis Oppenheim

  Heaven, Upside Down, Steeples

  7 Copy quote

• Writing poetry is a pleasure,...a pleasure out of hell

  Kenneth Slessor

  Writing, Pleasure, Poetry Is

  18 Copy quote

• And when you try to live there, to live in a place where you're betraying yourself over and over, not only do you grow to resent the hell out of it, and resent the hell out of whomever you're betraying and censoring yourself for, but the very idea of your self begins slowly and inexorably to erode. Until you realize one day out of the clear blue that you have no idea who your self is, anymore.

  Ron Currie Jr.

  Blue, Self, Ideas

  5 Copy quote