Christopher Marlowe: Quotes about hell

Christopher Marlowe was English dramatist, poet and translator. Explore interesting quotes on hell.
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“Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Source: Dr. Faustus

God , Hell , Joy

“Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd
In one self place; but where we are is hell,
And where hell is, there must we ever be.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 118
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)
Source: Dr. Faustus

Hell

“When all the world dissolves,
And every creature shall be purified,
All places shall be hell that are not heaven.”

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

Mephistopheles, Act II, scene i, line 120. In the first line, Marlowe references Isaiah in Isaiah 24:19 and 34:4; in the second line, he references Daniel in Daniel 12:10.
Doctor Faustus (c. 1603)

World , Hell