Arena Quote by Calvin Seerveld

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

— Edward Abbey

“And I — my head oppressed by horror — said: "Master, what is it that I hear? Who are those people so defeated by…

— Dante Alighieri

At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton…

— Annie Besant

Represent to yourself a dark city all burning and stinking with fire and brimstone. The damned are in the depth of hell within this…

— Saint Francis de Sales

To see human beings in agony, to see them covered in blood and to hear their death groans, makes people humble. It makes their…

— Yukio Mishima

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring…

— Ellen Glasgow

This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with the coward…

— Dante Alighieri

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

How can this world, which is so beautiful, include so much horror?

— Eugene Delacroix

What's so exciting and unstoppable about the horror genre is that I view it all as metaphorical exploration. It's the safe place that we,…

— Mike Flanagan