HELL QUOTES II
quotations about Hell
Hell is a name given to a mystical place where all souls go.... We are terrified with the promise of going there when bad, and only too happy to consign our enemies into that nether world. Fire, brimstone, cold, and unhappiness, all await us in hell. It lies somewhere below us, or maybe above us, or maybe in another dimension. Perhaps we inhabit hell now, here on earth.
S. KAYE SAUNDERS, Hell Exposed
All I know is that if God loves me only half as much as my mother does, he will not send me to Hell.
LIN YUTANG
The Importance of Living
Hell ain't half full.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
Blood Meridian
Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
The fact that most people don't believe in hell doesn't mean they won't end up there.
CLIFFE KNECHTLE
Give Me an Answer
The reason why evil denotes hell, is, because hell itself is nothing but evil; for it is the same thing whether you say that all in hell are evil, or say that hell is evil.
EMANUEL SWEDENBORG
Arcana Caelestia
Long is the way
And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
Doctor Faustus
Hell was always for other people.
IAIN M. BANKS
Surface Detail
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
BERTRAND RUSSELL
Sceptical Essays
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
ANDRE GIDE
Autumn Leaves
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals.
JAMES JOYCE
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Hell is the carrot and the stick in the chain letter that is the Christian religion.
ANONYMOUS
World Religions in a Nutshell
Belief in hell takes all beauty from virtue; who cares for obedience only rendered through fear?
ANNIE BESANT
My Path to Atheism
By the way, the belief that the afterlife was divided into opposite destinations, a heaven and hell, didn't really develop until later in Jewish history, sometime after the Babylonian Exile and a few centuries prior to the time of Christ. The noncanonical Book of Enoch, thought to have been written in 160 B.C.E., splits Sheol into multiple sections. These include one for the righteous who are awaiting Judgment and another for the wicked, who undergo punishment while they wait to be judged.
JASON BOYETT
Pocket Guide to the Afterlife
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.
NEALE DONALD WALSCH
Conversations with God
If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON CHURCHILL
Winston Churchill's Great Quotation Book: From Alamein to Zest for Life
The doctrine of hell is not "mediaeval priestcraft" for frightening people into giving money to the church: it is Christ's deliberate judgment on sin.... We cannot repudiate hell without altogether repudiating Christ.
DOROTHY SAYERS
Introductory Papers on Dante
The concept of hell doesn't fit the mold of a loving God. The god of the bible did not exist in any form, and ALL other gods were made up. Hell is imaginary, and Organized Religion only uses it to justify their religious dogma. No God of religion exists, and all holy books are no more than man-made mythology. As you live through intellectual honesty, you will reject the doctrine of hell and choose truth as your authority, rejecting authority as your truth.
JAWARA D. KING
Transform Your World Through the Powers of Your Mind
What is hell? Hell is oneself.
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections.
T. S. ELIOT
The Cocktail Party