100 Quotes About Hell

While the world is a scary place with a lot of evil in it, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel for everyone. There are many different kinds of hell, and each one is unique to each person. Some people get stuck in the “hell” of addiction while others seem to be stuck in work or relationships that they can’t seem to escape. Whatever your hell may be, we hope these encouraging hell quotes will help you get through it.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering...
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan...
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I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia. C.s. Lewis
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Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. Aldous Huxley
Life is hell, at some point we all just have...
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Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it. Alysha Speer
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Hell is truth seen too late. Thomas Hobbes
Hell is truth known too late.
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Hell is truth known too late. J.C. Ryle
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Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails. Clarence Darrow
If you ever need to confirm that a girl is...
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If you ever need to confirm that a girl is worth coming back from Hell for, show her your monster arm and see what she says. Richard Kadrey
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In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythical elements that seem to me to underlie our apparently ordinary lives. Certainly that cast of mind had some of its origin in our pit, which had much the character of a Protestant Hell. I was probably the most entranced listener to a sermon the Reverend Andrew Bowyer preached about Gehenna, the hateful valley outside the walls of Jerusalem, where outcasts lived, and where their flickering fires, seen from the city walls, may have given rise to the idea of a hell of perpetual burning. He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason then why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since. Robertson Davies
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..Hell is the home of the unreal and of the seekers for happiness. It is the only refuge from heaven, which is, as I tell you, the home of the masters of reality, and from earth, which is the home of the slaves of reality. The earth is a nursery in which men and women play at being heroes and heroines, saints and sinners; but they are dragged down from their fool’s paradise by their bodies: hunger and cold and thirst, age and decay and disease, death above all, make them slaves of reality: thrice a day meals must be eaten and digested: thrice a century a new generation must be engendered: ages of faith, of romance, and of science are all driven at last to have but one prayer, “Make me a healthy animal.” But here you escape this tyranny of the flesh; for here you are not an animal at all: you are a ghost, an appearance, an illusion, a convention, deathless, ageless: in a word, bodiless. There are no social questions here, no political questions, no religious questions, best of all, perhaps, no sanitary questions. Here you call your appearance beauty, your emotions love, your sentiments heroism, your aspirations virtue, just as you did on earth; but here there are no hard facts to contradict you, no ironic contrast of your needs with your pretensions, no human comedy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama. As our German friend put it in his poem, “the poetically nonsensical here is good sense; and the Eternal Feminine draws us ever upward and on.. George Bernard Shaw
Turn your self-hell into self-help.
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Turn your self-hell into self-help. Richie Norton
The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for...
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The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish. Chuck Palahniuk
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So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales! There's no need for red-hot pokers. Hell is–other people! JeanPaul Sartre
Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people...
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Will I ever stop being surprised by the ways people make hell? Catherine Lacey
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War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and not the two, war is a lot worse. Unknown
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War isn't hell. War is war, and Hell is hell, and of the two, war is a lot worse. Unknown
Even from far away, I could see people being chased...
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Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. Rick Riordan
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Take it! " he snarled, hurling the diamond necklace across the table at his opponent. "And may you rot in hell with it! "" I should not dream of intruding upon you there, " replied Mr Brundy, bowing deeply from the waist. Sheri Cobb South
What if I've died a long time ago and come...
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What if I've died a long time ago and come here? he wondered. What if the defining characteristic of hell is that you're locked in an endless, blind battle to reform it? Karan Mahajan
I love you,
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I love you, " Matt said. I love you, too, " Maria replied. "I know that's a sin, and I'll probably go to hell for it." If I have a soul, I'll go with you, " promised Matt. Nancy Farmer
Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell,...
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Abolishers of the soul (materialists) are necessarily abolishers of hell, they, certainly, are interested. At all events, they are people who fear to live again--lazy people. Charles Baudelaire
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To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. Carl Sandburg
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I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I had told you. Because I only like playing with words, only dreaming, but, do you know, what I really want is that you should all go to hell. That is what I want. I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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She wore her scarsas her best attire. A stunning dressmade of hellfire. Daniel Saint
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These souls were eternally disconnected, forever separated with a force that would not allow any interchange. They were like another race with no societal tie to each other, bound on their own miserable, independent journeys, alike only in the obvious countenance of pain. R. William Bennett
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. Charles Bukowski
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How do you imagine Hell, sir Blacksad ? For me, it's a place without music... of complete silence. Unknown
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I leaned against my door, struggling to catch my breath, and thought that maybe hell wasn't a place at all, but a thing. A contagious thing. A thing that could creep up the steps, seep through the crack under my door, grow horns and sprout fire - smelling faintly like sulfur. A thing that could sink its tendrils inside and take root, coloring everything gray and distorting a smile into a sneer. And while i got dressed for the play, swatted at my back and kept running my hands over my stomach because I could feel it, I swear, I could feel it reaching for me, trying to grab hold. Megan Miranda
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Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God. While I have life, as long as I draw breath, I shall deny with all my strength, and hate with every drop of my blood, this infinite lie. Robert G. Ingersoll
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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to see heaven. William S. Burroughs
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It maybe that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell. A.L. Prusick
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... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue... Terry Pratchett
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Jesus did not use hell to try and compel "heathens" and "pagans" to believe in God, so they wouldn't burn when they die. He talked about hell to very religious people to warn them about the consequences of straying from their God-given calling and identity to show the world God's love. Rob Bell
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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. T.S. Eliot
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We put ourselves through hell and that is hell. Marty Rubin
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The hope of Elevation has to remain something random, impossible to see properly, given not to those who earn it but to those with no discernible right to it. Resentment, fear, loathing, and a tiny, flickering light of hope always just out of reach, that is Hell, yes? Simon Kurt Unsworth
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The words were pulled from her, agonizing, like a disembowelment. Dawn Jayne
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Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire? Thomm Quackenbush
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The people are the biggesthorror show on earth, have been forcenturies. Charles Bukowski
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There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition. Stephen King
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The truth really does set you free – but what they don’t tell you is the process hurts like hell. Rachel Van Dyken
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A journey is a fragment of Hell. Bruce Chatwin
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Hell didn't make me a monster. It just confirmed all my worst fears about myself. Richard Kadrey
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You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.s. Lewis
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Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others.. but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud. . C.s. Lewis
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I call this a Divine Humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to him, and come to him because there is 'nothing better' now to be had. The same humility is shown by all those Divine appeals to our fears which trouble high-minded readers of Scripture. It is hardly complimentary to God that we should choose Him as an alternative to Hell: yet even this He accepts. The creatures illusion to self-sufficiency must, for the creature's sake, be shattered; and by trouble or fear of trouble on earth, by crude fear of eternal flames, God shatters it 'unmindful of his glory's diminution'. Those who would like the God of Scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. C.s. Lewis
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What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one is in hell. Voltaire
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The darkest of all hells resides in ones mind Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
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I aint sure we've seen these people before. Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even. If you killed em all they'd have to build a annex on to hell. Cormac McCarthy
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If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston S. Churchill
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My heart is eternally yours, but my soul will always be hell bound. Reyna Pryde
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. Robert Frost
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All right, then, I'll go to hell. Mark Twain
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo
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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits. William S. Burroughs
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Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. Neil Gaiman
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Hell is just a frame of mind. Christopher Marlowe
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Lost in Hell, -Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here. Unknown
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Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell. William Carlos Williams
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You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. Dorothy Parker
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When people inexplicably dissapeared into thin air, it was usually because they had a new zip code. Something like 666 Jennifer L. Armentrout
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The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail. Yukio Mishima
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is must we ever be. Christopher Marlowe
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Where have you come from boy?' He looked at her again.' From hell, to take you away in the night and eat you. Paul Hoffman
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No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy. Mike Carey
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You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 – all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people. Peter S. Beagle
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We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment. C.s. Lewis
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In one word, Queequeg, said I, rather digressively; hell is an idea first born on an undigested apple-dumpling; and since then perpetuated through the hereditary dyspepsias nurtured by Ramadans. Herman Melville
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Tadas was sent to the principal today, " announced Jonas at dinner. He wedged a huge piece of sausage into his small mouth." Why?" I asked." Because he talked about hell, " sputtered Jonas, juice from the plump sausage dribbling down his chin." Jonas, don't speak with your mouth full. Take smaller pieces, " scolded Mother."Sorry, " said Jonas with his moth stuffed. "It's good." He finished chewing. I took a bite of sausage. It was warm and the skin was deliciously salty." Tadas told one of the girls that hell is the worst place ever and there's no escape for all eternity."" Now why would Tadas be talking of hell?" asked Papa, reaching for the vegetables." Because his father told him that if Stalin comes to Lithuania, we'll all end up there. Ruta Sepetys
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The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a soul with, e.g., red-hot tweezers, because even fairly evil and corrupt souls were bright enough to realize that since they didn't have the concomitant body and nerve endings attached to them there was no real reason, other than force of habit, why they should suffer excruciating agony. So they didn't. Demons went on doing it anyway, because numb and mindless stupidity is part of what being a demon is all about, but since no one was suffering they didn't enjoy it much either and the whole thing was pointless. Centuries and centuries of pointlessness. . Terry Pratchett
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They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it? Neil Gaiman
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It was the only lullaby she would ever sing, and it was sung in Hell. Laini Taylor
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Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell? AnnMarie MacDonald
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To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world, is just as base as to use force... Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. Hypatia
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The real hell of life is everyone has his reasons. Jean Renoir
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Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively thinks, “Hey, now there’s something I could rape and kill without any consequences, ” then the concept of Hell might really keep you out of trouble. Sarah Silverman
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Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. George Bernard Shaw
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There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees. William Carlos Williams
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You know I'd follow you anywhere. Even if it's straight to Hell. Abigail Roux
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*For eleven years, I've been worked over and abused in ways you can't imagine by things you don't want to know about. I've killed every kind of vile, black-souled, dead-eyed nightmare that ever made you piss your pjs and cry for mommy in the middle of the night. I kill monsters and, if I wanted, I could say a word and burn you to powder from the inside out. I can tear any human you ever met to rages with my bare hands. Give me one good reason why I could possibly need you?* She looks straight at me, not blinking. No fear in her eyes.* Because you might be the Tasmanian Devil and the Angel of Death all rolled into one, but you don't even know how to get a phone.* I hate to admit it, but she has a point. Richard Kadrey
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. William Carlos Williams
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Maybe that's what Hell is, in the end. All of your wrongful shit played out there in front of you while you're being pumped from behind by someone you've hurt. That you've screwed over in life. Or worse, worse still..some person who doesn't really love you anymore. No one to ever look at again, make contact with. Just you being fucked as your life splashes out across this big headboard in the Devil's bedroom. Maybe. Even if that's not it, even if Hell is all fire and sulfur and that sort of thing, it couldn't be much worse than that. Neil LaBute
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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the grass, sweetest of all fungi. William Carlos Williams
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The monitor presently shows the Windows Blue Screen of Death, though this does not alarm him, as the BSoD is the universal screen saver in Hell. Robert Olen Butler
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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell. Rudyard Kipling
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Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There is no down, only sideways; the transparent beside the opaque, and a thin wall to separate them. Leanna Renee Hieber
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He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same sort of place as Gehenna. My elders thought this far-fetched, but I saw no reason why hell should not have, so to speak, visible branch establishments throughout the earth, and I have visited quite a few of them since. Robertson Davies
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La mu’axsa, but I think I’ll just keep sliding down this greased pole to hell? V.S. Carnes
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Hell is a hell of a lie! God is not a torturer! Mehmet Murat Ildan
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We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others. Seth GrahameSmith
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I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. Henning Mankell
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What, in all very seriousness, the hell was going on? Jeff Lindsay
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There was, no doubt, a confusion of persons in damnation: what Pantheists falsely hoped of Heaven bad men really received in Hell. They were melted down into their Master, as a lead soldier slips down and loses his shape in the ladle over the gas ring. C.s. Lewis
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Tom Chaney would pay for this! I would not rest easy until that Louisiana cur was roasting and screaming in hell! Charles Portis
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There were so many desperate people on the street crying for help that you had to shut off your heart or the pain would be too much. After a while, you can´t care anymore. And that is what hell is like. Yeonmi Park
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You're a monster. You'll go to hell."" Of course I will. Someone needs to take the throne. XxSkemoxx183
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Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some shouted, some wept, some wrote, some sketched and many conspired about their coming interrogation. But mostly they did no more than stare into space, eyes unfocused as they tried to see tomorrow. Len Deighton