“Hell was what you made it.”

“What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?”

Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead

“If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.”

Willie Nelson (1933) American country music singer-songwriter.

“Look at you people in here – what the hell is wrong with you? Nothing. So you could probably have what you want, if you could figure out what the hell it was and you diligently pursued it.”

Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology

“Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
What an inviting hell invented.”

John Fletcher (1579–1625) English Jacobean playwright

“Soon enough
you can say we made it up
just for fun I guess
to make a mess
cause what’s more fun
than other people’s hell”

Aimee Mann (1960) American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)

“Yahoo called me eight weeks ago. They wanted to put a book of mine on Yahoo! You know what I told them? "To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet."”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

“What the bloody hell are you, Ms. Lane?”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

“…to hell with being ashamed of what you liked.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.

- Cian MacKeltar”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author