Skip to content

Hell on earth Quote by Nick Cave

“And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. ‘It’s Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that that is worth. Heaven is just a lie of mine to make it Hell on Earth.” quote by Nick Cave — Download Open image

““And Satan sighed and shook his head, played harp amongst the flames. ‘It’s Hell up there in Heaven too, for all that that is worth. Heaven is just a lie of mine to make it Hell on Earth.””

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Hell on earth

More by Nick Cave

Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.

Image

“And I know why our friendship must be kept a secret. Or they will kill You like they killed You in the Bible. And then we could not be together. If not for them we would live in this valley together. As best friends. But we must be careful, Jesus. I think I would die if anything happened to You...'…

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three…

Image

“Through these days Bunny made increasingly frequent and protracted visits to the bathroom, beating off with a single-minded savagery intense even by Bunny's standards. Now, sitting on the sofa with a large Scotch, his cock feels and looks like something that has been involved in a terrible accident - a cartoon hotdog, maybe, that has made an unsuccessful attempt to…

Personally I find the story of Christ incredibly moving.

Image

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something…

Image

“My relationship with my muse is a delicate one at the best of times and I feel that it is my duty to protect her from influences that may offend her fragile nature. She comes to me with the gift of song and in return I treat her with the respect I feel she deserves — in this case this…

I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

Image

Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room…

Image

My father was a teacher and my mother also worked in the school, so the family has a background in education.

Image

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

Image

To my undying shame, I do read reviews. I don't read them all, but I like to get some kind of idea how things…

Image

Explore all 280 Nick Cave quotes

More Hell on earth quotes

Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell…

Image

“I thought if I loved you enough I could change you. I was so stupid.”

Image

“I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight…

Image

The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on…

Image

What has always made a Hell on earth has been that man has tried to make it his Heaven.

Friedrich Holderlin

Image

“Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse.”

Image

When people use the word hell, what do they mean? They mean a place, an event, a situation absent of how God desires things to be. Famine, debt, oppression, loneliness, despair, death, slaughter--they are all hell on earth. Jesus' desire for his followers is that they live in such a way that they bring heaven to earth. What's disturbing is…

“He will take this hell on earth and someday show us how hell was building heaven.”

Image

“Drive. He’s already dead.”

Image

“...but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is Earth. Dead is dead. You'll find…

Chuck Palahniuk

Image

“If there's a Hell on Earth, it's high school.”

Lisa Desrochers

Image

“Terrorism was like heroin – once a lonely, desperate soul was hooked on it, he or she became a fanatic – radicalized they call…

Image

Browse all 137 Hell on earth quotes