- When all the world dissolves,
- And every creature shall be purified,
- All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE, Doctor Faustus
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
TOM STOPPARD, The Invention of Love
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
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
Hell is other people.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE, No Exit
Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.
JOHN BUNYAN, The Pilgrim's Progress
- Long is the way
- And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON, Paradise Lost
- Hell's foundations quiver
- At the shout of praise;
- Brothers, lift your voices,
- Loud your anthems raise.
SABINE BARING-GOULD, Onward, Christian Soldiers
Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.
MICHAEL MARSHALL, The Upright Man
You might be wondering--the hard-men among you, the nutters, the glassers, the thugs--whether you couldn't hack it in Hell, whether you couldn't, when it came right down to it, just butch the bastard out. Well guess what: You couldn't.
Redemption can be found in hell itself if that's where you happen to be.
Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Blue Moon
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Burnt Offerings
Hell ain't half full.
CORMAC MCCARTHY, Blood Meridian
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