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Quotes about Hell


Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Giles Firmin

Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace.

Thomas Gray

Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]

Thomas Gray

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

George Herbert

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Robert Herrick

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

Robert Herrick

Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

Robert Herrick

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Dorothy Gilman

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

William M. Holden

Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.

Turkish Proverb

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Mary Baker Eddy

Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.

Chinese Proverb

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.

Will Carleton

Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.

George Eliot

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.

William T. Sherman

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

E. M. Cioran

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

Cynthia Heimel

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Earl Warren

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun, and if you're not in business for fun or profit, what the hell are you doing there?.

Robert Townsend

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles M. Allen

When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

Peter Mcwilliams

Ha! see where the wild-blazing Grog-Shop appears, As the red waves of wretchedness swell, How it burns on the edge of tempestuous years The horrible Light-House of Hell!

M'Donald Clarke ("The Mad Poet")

Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

George Bernard Shaw

Hell is paved with good intentions, roofed in with lost opportunities.

Portuguese Proverb

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

John Milton

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