Hell Quotes - Page 30

• People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.

  Rajneesh

  Fall, Law, People

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• Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Sunday, Heaven, Wish

  "A little book in C major".

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• There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away.

  Norman Mailer

  Freedom, America, Long

  1966 Cannibals and Christians,'My Hope For America'.

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• Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

  Margaret Atwood

  Heaven, Balance, Said

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Nov 21, 2016

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• There was no way in hell I was going to jeopardize my baby for my show.

  Christina Aguilera

  Baby, Way, Shows

  "Countdown to Christina". Marie Claire Interview, www.marieclaire.com. November 30, 2007.

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• Asked about the fact that Apple's iTunes software for Windows computers was extremely popular, Jobs joked, 'It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell.

  Walter Isaacson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Jobs

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a silver line in hell or madness.

  Ben Okri

  Perfect, Mind, Stories

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• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

  Northrop Frye

  Cat, Blue, Imagination

  Northrop Frye (1964). “The Educated Imagination”, p.105, Indiana University Press

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• Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?

  Edward Abbey

  Morning, Coffee, Night

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

  Edward Abbey

  Children, Future, Politician

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• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

  Martin Amis

  Moving, Games, Chess

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.119, Random House

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• When we fall in love, we hope - both egotistically and altruistically - that we shall be finally, truly seen: judged and approved. Of course, love does not always bring approval: being seen may just as well lead to a thumbs-down and a season in hell.

  Julian Barnes

  Falling In Love, Thumbs Down, Doe

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• It is a bizarre thought that in this [U.S. 2008] presidential cycle we could have had a woman in the White House we might have a black man in the White House but if either of them had said they were atheists neither of them would have had a hope in hell.

  Julian Barnes

  Atheist, Men, White

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• Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

  Gene Autry

  Work, Gambling, Concerned

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• Things just happen. What the hell.

  Terry Pratchett

  Happens

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)”, p.12, Random House

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• If you have to look along the shaft of an arrow from the wrong end, if a man has you entirely at his mercy, then hope like hell that man is an evil man. Because the evil like power... they will talk, they will gloat. So hope like hell your captor is an evil man. A good man will kill you with hardly a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Arrows, Evil

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• There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.

  Isaac Asimov

  Death, Sleep, Boredom

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.480, Bantam

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• Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Islands, People, Heaven

  Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Galapagos: A Novel”, Dial Press

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• You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Editors, Giving

  "Front Page story: Chicago's City News office is shut" by Julian Borger, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2006.

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• Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Rules To Live By, Three

  "Ray Bradbury on Sci-Fi, God and Robots: The Late Author's Biggest Ideas" by Angela Watercutter, www.wired.com. June 6, 2012.

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• People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Future, Air, People

  "Beyond 1984: The People Machines". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1979.

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• I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

  Ray Bradbury

  Two, Done, Work Done

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• Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!

  Dorothy Parker

  Love You, Kick Ass, Like Me

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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