Hell Quotes - Page 5

• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  Robert Frost

  Rights, Political, Icy

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• Some of you young men think that war is all glamour and glory, but let me tell you, boys, it is all hell!

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Military, War, Boys

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• Many might go to heaven with half the labour they go to hell, if they would venture their industry the right way.

  Ben Jonson

  Heaven, Half, Venture

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.743

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• Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him

  Charles Barkley

  Fans, Beats

  "American Morning" with Soledad O'Brien, edition.cnn.com. November 22, 2004.

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• There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

  Tommy Docherty

  Football

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• Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Heaven, Revelations

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• If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Phoenix, Heaven, Facts

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Opposites, Knowing, Joy

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.51, Penguin

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• In the deepest pits of 'Ell, Where the worst defaulters dwell (Charcoal devils used as fuel as you require 'em), There's some lovely coloured rays, Pyrotechnical displays, But you can't expect the burning to admire 'em!

  Edgar Wallace

  Lovely, Devil, Rays

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• I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire.

  William Shakespeare

  Thinking, Fire, Oil

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Arden Shakespeare Complete Works”, p.885, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Skulls, Religion, Priests

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 362-64, 1922.

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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• [One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.

  Bertrand Russell

  Heaven, Looks, Speak

  Bertrand Russell, Nicholas Griffin (2001). “The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970”, p.87, Psychology Press

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• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

  Gian Carlo Menotti

  Accountability, Vision, Done

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• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Philip Roth

  Work, Writing, Sisterhood

  1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.

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• All hell broke loose.

  John Milton

  Broke

  Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

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• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Relationship, Marriage, Cynical

  Abraham Lincoln, Bob Blaisdell (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

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• All right, then, I'll go to hell.

  Mark Twain

  Literature, Go To Hell

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 31 (1884)

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

  Arnold Bennett

  Reality, Heaven, Secret

  Arnold Bennett (1932). “The Journals of Arnold Bennett ...: 1896-1910”, London, Cassell

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• If there is not Hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  Billy Sunday

  Good Man, Preacher, Obtaining

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• Hell is paved with infants skulls.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Skulls, Infant

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations", pp. 362-364, 1922.

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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• I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

  William Faulkner

  Care, Where You Are, I Don't Care

  William Faulkner (2013). “The Sound And The Fury”, p.160, Random House

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• Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

  John Milton

  Power, Light, Long

  Paradise Lost bk. 2, l. 432 (1667)

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