Hell Quotes
4330 quotes by 2784 authors
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The Tenth Commandment sends a message to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness, to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 - to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
— Rumi
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St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. Before we…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
— Philip Roth
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The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
— Stephen King
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The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Pride, the first peer and president of Hell.
— Daniel Defoe
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
— Will Carleton
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Many might go to Heaven with half the labor they go to hell.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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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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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
— John Milton
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Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Strange a God who mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness, then invented hell; who mouths morals to other people and has none Himself; who frowns upon…
— Mark Twain
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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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The God of hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A god who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved; cursed, not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The Old Testament filled this world with tyranny and injustice, and the New gives us a future filled with pain for nearly all of the…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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When I die I won't go to heaven or hell; there will just be nothingness.
— Isaac Asimov
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