quotations about Hell
I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go
NEIL GAIMAN
Season of Mists
Canst thou fly too fast from hell and damnation? Canst thou be too carefull to avoid those paths, which, though strewed with roses, lead down to the chambers of death? Whether is it better thy flesh should murmur, or thy soul should perish? O that knowing these terrors of the Lord, our whole life might be one constant flight from the wrath that is to come!
WILLIAM MCEWEN
"On the Misery of the Damned", Select Essays Doctrinal & Practical on a Variety of the Most Important and Interesting Subjects in Divinity
Hell is no less than the eternal and second death, in its utmost extent and terror, as, just in all respects the opposite to eternal life, 'tis the most finished misery of the wicked, wherein they are ternally separated from the pleasing perception of God, and the fruition of all kinds of good, confined in chains of despair and darkness, under the lively and afflicting sense of the punishing vengeance of the Deity, justly kindled and continually flaming against them for their offensive actions, and in a wise and equitable proportion to the measure of those offenses. So that they are filled with incessant stings and horrors of conscience, and tormented in soul and body with such painful and raging flames, as will forever distress, but never consume their bodies, or destroy a lively consciousness of guilt in their souls to all eternity.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
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.
GLEN DUNCAN
I
I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Misalliance
Money doesn't spend in hell.... The devil deals in a different coin.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON
Blue Moon
Perhaps people take umbrage at a God who condemns people to hell because they feel like they're already there.
CRAIG DETWEILER
A Purple State of Mind
Forever, we hear of hell. During the Middle Ages, people had nightmares that were filled with visions of it. They feared hell. Talk of hell went in and out of fashion. As the Catholic Church's power broke with the Protestant divisions, hell and its clost friends of spiritualism and witchcraft gained tenuous hold. Enlightenment eroded hell's horrors and civilization learned tolerance for the Underworld. Today we believe in hell, but we don't want to believe it could be waiting for us. Hell is cold. It is lonely. It is filled with the dispossessed, the bad, the ugly, and the things about which we choose not to remember. Hell is a leftover idea from our past that we could best do without. The problem is that it will not do without us.
S. KAYE SAUNDERS
Hell Exposed
The only reason people go to bars is to get drunk and have sex. To me, bars are what hell is like.
CLAY AIKEN
Learning to Sing: Hearing the Music in Your Life
The Justice of God demands there be an everlasting hell, both as a punishment for the wicked and as a deterrent against those contemplating wickedness.
DAVID MICHAEL LINDSEY
The Woman and the Dragon
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
Let me say to you here very clearly: it is my firm opinion, and it is my foremost conviction, and it is what I fervently preach, that HELL IS HOT.
SHELTON L. SMITH
Hell is for Real!
Hell doesn't make God less loving. It reveals the depth of his love, which went to hell and back for us.
PHIL MOORE
Straight to the Heart of Matthew
Hell's my wife's home town.
BOB DYLAN
"My Wife's Home Town"
All right, God, send me to hell. You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.
DOROTHY PARKER
"A Telephone Call"
If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
GEORGES BERNANOS
Joy