These hell quotes will inspire you. Hell, a nether world in which the dead continue to exist or are used to express annoyance or surprise or for emphasis.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging hell quotes, hell sayings, and hell proverbs.
Best Hell Quotes
- “An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.” ~ William Shakespeare
- “To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.” ~ Bruce Lee
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “Oh, my brothers and sisters in Christ, if sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies; and if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay, and not madly to destroy themselves. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go there unwarned and unprayed for.” ~ Charles Spurgeon
- “Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.” ~ Billy Sunday
- “Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness, in which there is no love.” ~ Richard Bach
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“Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.” ~ Mark Twain
- “Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.” ~ Thomas Paine
- “There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.” ~ Ben Jonson
- “Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.” ~ Bonnie Raitt
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“To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.” ~ Mark Twain
- “I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.” ~ Isaac Asimov
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“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” ~ Robert Frost
- “When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn’t like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said That’s where I got my information about hell.” ~ Vance Havner
- “I think that hell essentially is separation from God forever. And that is the worst hell that I can think of. But I think people have a hard time believing God is going to allow people to burn in literal fire forever. I think the fire that is mentioned in the Bible is a burning thirst for God that can never be quenched.” ~ Billy Graham , Hell quotes Bible
- “The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.” ~ Thomas Carlyle
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“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
- “Hell isn’t merely paved with good intentions; it’s walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.” ~ Aldous Huxley
- “The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.” ~ John Milton
- “In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.” ~ Andre Gide
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“Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.” ~ John Milton
- “If I’m going to Hell, I’m going there playing the piano.” ~ Jerry Lee Lewis
- “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” ~ Stephen King
- “We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.” ~ Oscar Wilde
- “And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning – enemies of society, as you call them. You’re kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God’s justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it’s easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!” ~ Georges Bernanos , Love is hell quotes
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“Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.” ~ Samuel Beckett
- “The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.” ~ John Calvin
- “If you are going to go through hell, keep going” ~ Winston Churchill
- “How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?” ~ Orlando Bloom
- “I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.” ~ Heinrich Heine
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“I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.” ~ R. A. Torrey
- “Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.” ~ Frank Borman
- “When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join thy soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of ‘Hell’s Unutterable Lament’.” ~ Charles Spurgeon , Hell quotes on earth
- “Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.” ~ John Milton
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“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.” ~ William S. Burroughs
- “The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “Hell is paved with priests’ skulls.” ~ Saint John Chrysostom
- “Hell is more bearable than nothingness.” ~ Philip James Bailey
- “The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists – that is why they invented hell.” ~ Bertrand Russell
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“Well actually I don’t think it’s a bunch of bad things that send us to hell. I think it is rejection of God’s grace.” ~ Rick Warren
- “That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.” ~ Thomas Aquinas
- “Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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
- “Hell is out of fashion – institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one’s own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.” ~ J. G. Ballard
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“Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another.” ~ Homer
- “[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one’s neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.” ~ Aleister Crowley
- “Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.” ~ William Blake
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“Hell is paved with good samaritans.” ~ William Holden
- “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” ~ Mark Twain
- “One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.” ~ W. H. Auden
- “I’d walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.” ~ Pete Rose , Walking through hell quotes
- “Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.” ~ Karl Popper
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“There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.” ~ Dante Alighieri
- “The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.” ~ Philip Roth
- “Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
- “I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.” ~ Harry S. Truman
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“I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.” ~ Thomas A. Edison
- “To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damned hard.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it. Football. Bloody hell.” ~ Alex Ferguson
- “If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell.” ~ Sylvia Plath