quotations about Hell
[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
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letter to Colette O'Niel, Oct. 23, 1916
This was hell then; it wasn't anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room.
GRAHAM GREENE
Brighton Rock
There's a lot of loose talk going around to the effect that Hell doesn't exist. It never seems to strike these gabby pundits that not to exist may be precisely the reality of Hell.
HUGH HOOD
Near Water
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
Gonzo Papers
Don't get me wrong. I don't want to go to hell any more than the next guy (especially if eternal conscious torment ends up involving some form of nonstop Barry Manilow music marathon). It's just that the threat of hell doesn't move me any longer.
BRIAN JONES
Getting Rid of the Gorilla
Imagine some foul and putrid corpse that has lain rotting and decomposing in the grave, a jelly-like mass of liquid corruption. Imagine such a corpse a prey to flames, devoured by the fire of burning brimstone and giving off dense choking fumes of nauseous loathsome decomposition. And then imagine this sickening stench, multiplied a millionfold and a millionfold again from the millions upon millions of fetid carcasses massed together in the reeking darkness, a huge and rotting human fungus. Imagine all this, and you will have some idea of the horror of the stench of hell.
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Perhaps people take umbrage at a God who condemns people to hell because they feel like they're already there.
CRAIG DETWEILER
A Purple State of Mind
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go
NEIL GAIMAN
Season of Mists
Hell doesn't make God less loving. It reveals the depth of his love, which went to hell and back for us.
PHIL MOORE
Straight to the Heart of Matthew
The Justice of God demands there be an everlasting hell, both as a punishment for the wicked and as a deterrent against those contemplating wickedness.
DAVID MICHAEL LINDSEY
The Woman and the Dragon
Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.
ANNE RICE
Memnoch the Devil
Forever, we hear of hell. During the Middle Ages, people had nightmares that were filled with visions of it. They feared hell. Talk of hell went in and out of fashion. As the Catholic Church's power broke with the Protestant divisions, hell and its clost friends of spiritualism and witchcraft gained tenuous hold. Enlightenment eroded hell's horrors and civilization learned tolerance for the Underworld. Today we believe in hell, but we don't want to believe it could be waiting for us. Hell is cold. It is lonely. It is filled with the dispossessed, the bad, the ugly, and the things about which we choose not to remember. Hell is a leftover idea from our past that we could best do without. The problem is that it will not do without us.
S. KAYE SAUNDERS
Hell Exposed
Let me say to you here very clearly: it is my firm opinion, and it is my foremost conviction, and it is what I fervently preach, that HELL IS HOT.
SHELTON L. SMITH
Hell is for Real!
All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.
DOROTHY PARKER
"A Telephone Call"
If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Joy
The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.
CLAY AIKEN
Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life