Hell Quotes

• The will is that which has all power; it makes heaven and it makes hell: for there is no hell but where the will of the creature is turned from God, nor any heaven but where the will of the creature worketh with God.

  

  William Law
  • Power
  • Heaven
  • Creatures

• O hell! to choose love with another's eye.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Eye
  • Hell

• What you consistently speak with emotional intensity, you will experience, you will create, and you will become. The words that you speak with emotional conviction become the life you live - this is your heaven or this is your hell.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Heaven
  • Emotional
  • Speak

• The road to hell is paved with intractable recursions, bad equilibria, and information cascades.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Road
  • Hell
  • Information Cascades

• Each of us bears his own Hell.

  

  Virgil
  • Hell
  • Bears
  • Each

• I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • People
  • World
  • Kind

• When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Eternity
  • Circles
  • Forgot

• Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Pain
  • Hell
  • Angelic

• It seems to me in a general sense we as a society are enamored with the mystical, mysterious, the unseen & unknown. We are looking for the hidden teaching, the secret scroll or fountain of youth, and of course heaven and hell.

  

  Bryan Kest
  • Society
  • Heaven
  • Sense

• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • World
  • Speak
  • Individual

• In fact, I take the view that God, in his infinite wisdom, didn't bother to spring for two joints - heaven and hell. They're the same place, but heaven is when you get everything you want and you meet Mummy and Daddy and your best friends and you all have a hug and a kiss and play your harps. Hell is the same place - no fire and brimstone - but they just all pass by and don't see you. There's nothing, no recognition. You're waving, “It's me, your father,” but you're invisible. You're on a cloud, you've got your harp, but you can't play with nobody because they don't see you. That's hell.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Heaven

• Sometimes this was just the way the game ended. Sometimes you did your best, and it all went straight to hell anyway.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Game
  • Best
  • Hell

• The only good reason to have money is this: so that you can tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • World
  • Reason
  • Hell

• I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Truth
  • Hell

• I don't approve of the John Waynes and the Gary Coopers saying "Shucks, I ain't no actor - I'm just a bridge builder or a gas station attendant." If they aren't actors, what the hell are they getting paid for? I have respect for my profession. I worked hard at it.

  

  Humphrey Bogart
  • Profession
  • Gas
  • Builder

• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Earth
  • Happiness
  • Lifetime

• Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

  

  Ray LaMontagne
  • Kind
  • Eye
  • Demon

• Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Job
  • Enjoy
  • Succeed

• Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Love
  • Heaven
  • For Her

• When you come back from your escape. Then I could follow you to hell.

  

  Pete Yorn
  • Hell
  • Escape

• I don’t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn’t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Writing
  • Fun

• If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.

  

  Shinichi Suzuki
  • Taken
  • Hell
  • Complaining

• I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Trouble
  • Hell

• I learned two things growing up in Texas. 1: God loves you, and you're going to burn in hell forever. 2: Sex is the dirtiest and most dangerous thing you can possibly do, so save it for someone you love.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Forever
  • Dangerous
  • Hell

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