best quotations about
Hell |
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Quotations
 | If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 22 likes |
 | For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 13 likes |
 | Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 12 likes |
 | I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 11 likes |
 | The road to hell is paved with good intentions. — St Bernard de Clairvaux, 1091-1153, French saint & abbot of the Cistercian order 9 likes |
 | Abandon all hope, you who enter here. Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 8 likes |
 | The gates of hell are open night and day. Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 8 likes |
 | A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | Hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 7 likes |
| I have come to lead you to the other shore; into eternal darkness; into fire and into ice. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 6 likes |
 | Hell is whatever Heaven is not. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 6 likes |
 | If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 5 likes |
 | Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth, and you should save it for someone you love. — Butch Hancock, 1945-, American singer 5 likes |
 | Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] (Dante didn’t say that) 4 likes |
 | To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell. — Marquis de Sade, 1740-1814, French writer 4 likes |
 | There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering: a hell of boredom. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 4 likes |
 | It will take a great deal of magnanimity from God to forgive men for inventing hell. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist 4 likes |
| Hell is full of good meanings and wishes. But heaven is fill of good works. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | I translated Dante’s “Inferno” because I discovered some of my ancestors in it! — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. — John Milton, 1608-1674, English poet 2 likes |
| For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours? — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven? — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 2 likes |
 | Hell is truth seen too late. |
 | The devil can and does enter only Hell, the angel can and does enter only Paradise. The man, wherever he wants! |
| It is easier for the imagination to compose a hell with pain than a paradise with pleasure. |
 | I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. |
 | If you are on the right path you will find that invisible hands are helping. |
 | The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten. |
 | If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress. |
 | When many gather together, people become small. They are like Milton’s devils who are forced to become pygmies in order to enter Pandemonium. |
 | In this world we live in a mixture of time and eternity. Hell would be pure time. |
 | There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment. |
Latin Quotes
| If I cannot sway the heavens, I will raise hell. Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 179 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 5 likes |
 | I myself am hell; nobody's here. |
Funny Quotes
 | Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 37 likes |
 | From the day that God put man in the presence of woman, paradise became hell. |
