“Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.”

“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul,
The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me,
The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate
into a new tongue.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.”

Tanith Lee (1947–2015) British writer

“it's the proper morning to fly into Hell.”

Arthur Miller The Crucible

“If I can not move heaven I shall raise Hell.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

“The God of Hell should be held in loathing, contempt and scorn. A God who threatens eternal pain should be hated, not loved — cursed, not worshiped. A heaven presided over by such a God must be below the lowest hell. I want no part in any heaven in which the saved, the ransomed and redeemed will drown with shouts of joy the cries and sobs of hell — in which happiness will forget misery, where the tears of the lost only increase laughter and double bliss.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

“Paradise in which there is no way to leave territory — hell for a traveler.”

Viktor Pinchuk (1969)

“Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light, which infinitely flows forth from God, as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes.”

William Law (1686–1761) English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer