Quotes about hell (2180 quotes, page 22)

“He is a shrewd, Napoleonic, short man, who is very affable, but as poisonous as hell with his affability.”

Erhard Milch (1892–1972) German general

Leon Goldensohn, January 22, 1946

“Puskás scared the hell out of goalkeepers from the 30-35 metre range. He did not just have a powerful shot, but precision as well. I thought he was a genius.”

Ferenc Puskás (1927–2006) Hungarian-Spanish association football player

Raymond Kopa http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=260183

“I was MARRIED for TWO FUCKING YEARS! Hell would be like Club Med!”

Sam Kinison (1953–1992) American comedian

HBO Special (1985)

“If sin must be kept alive, then hell must be kept alive; but while I regard the smallest sin as infinitely loathsome, I do not believe that any being, never good enough to see the essential ugliness of sin, could sin so as to deserve such punishment. I am not now, however, dealing with the question of the duration of punishment, but with the idea of punishment itself; and would only say in passing, that the notion that a creature born imperfect, nay, born with impulses to evil not of his own generating, and which he could not help having, a creature to whom the true face of God was never presented, and by whom it never could have been seen, should be thus condemned, is as loathsome a lie against God as could find place in heart too undeveloped to understand what justice is, and too low to look up into the face of Jesus.”

George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist

From ‘’Justice’’ in Unspoken Sermons Series III (1889)

God , Justice , Understanding , Question

“My father was as well aware as anyone that Christians do not, in general, undergo the demoralizing consequences which seem inherent in such a creed, in the manner or to the extent which might have been expected from it. The same slovenliness of thought, and subjection of the reason to fears, wishes, and affections, which enable them to accept a theory involving a contradiction in terms, prevents them from perceiving the logical consequences of the theory. Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.”

John Stuart Mill book Autobiography

Source: Autobiography (1873)

https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/41/mode/1up pp. 41–42

Perfection , Time , Truth , Fear

“Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!”

Waka Flocka Flame (1986) American rapper and comedian

Interview https://www.xxlmag.com/xxl-magazine/2011/02/waka-flocka-flame-to-become-the-new-face-of-peta/ with XXL (7 February 2011); quoted in "Waka Flocka Flame Is the New Face of PETA" https://bbook.com/nightlife/waka-flocka-flame-is-the-new-face-of-peta/, BlackBook.

Animals

“I agree that it's very difficult to come to an absolute definition of what's moral and what is not. We are on our own, without a god, and we have to get together, sit down together and decide what kind of society do we want to live in. Do we want to live in a society where people steal, where people kill, where people don't pull their weight paying their taxes, doing that kind of thing? Do we want to live in a kind of society where everybody is out for themselves in a dog-eat-dog world? And we decide in conclave together that that's not the kind of world in which we want to live. It's difficult. There is no absolute reason why we should believe that that's true - it's a moral decision which we take as individuals - and we take it collectively as a collection of individuals. If you want to get that sort of value system from religion I want you to ask yourself - whereabouts in religion do you get it? Which religion do you get it from? They're all different. If you get it from the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition then I beg you - don't get it from your holy book! Because the morality you will get from reading your holy book is hideous. Don't get it from your holy book. Don't get it from sucking up to your god. Don't get it from saying “oh, I'm terrified of going to hell so I'd better be good””

Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

that's a very ignoble reason to be good. Instead - be good for good reasons. Be good for the reason that's you've decided together with other people the society we want to live in: a decent humane society. Not one based on absolutism, not one based on holy books and not one based on sucking up to.. looking over your shoulder to the divine spy camera in the sky. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFdPHdhgKQ&t=59m29s
Richard Dawkins vs. Jonathan Sacks - BBC's RE:Think Festival (2012)

God , Religion , Reading , Dogs

“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it — don't cheat with it.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Letter to F Scott Fitzgerald, as quoted in Scott Fitzgerald (1962) by Andrew Turnbull (1962) Ch. 14

Hurt , Cheating , Personality , Forgetting

“It's as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.... Hell is a collection of individuals who spend their time working on a task they don't like and are not especially good at.... Give them a few drinks, and they will launch into tirades about how pointless and stupid their job really is.... Nurses, garbage collectors, mechanics, it's obvious were they to vanish, results would be catastrophic.... A world without teachers or dock-workers would soon be in trouble.... It's not clear how humanity would suffer were all private equity CEOs, lobbyists, PR researchers, actuaries, telemarketers, bailiffs or legal consultants to similarly vanish.... Real productive workers are squeezed and exploited. The remainder are unemployed and a larger stratum paid to do nothing.”

David Graeber (1961) American anthropologist and anarchist

Dr. David Graeber, "Bullshit Jobs," Aug 2013

Drink , Time , Suffering , Teachers

“Also, I’m certainly not Trump’s number 1 fan, but even I can see that his plan isn’t just about the wall. It’s about tightening all border security. But also the wall. Because it’s a hell of a lot harder to scale a giant wall or fence than just walking across nothingness. Just ask Israel or Hungary. Sure, it doesn’t solve all the problems, but a giant blockade is a step in the right direction.”

Steven Crowder (1987) American actor

Problem

“Every man creates his own private hell,… Brutal men believe they may challenge the mighty, and when they fall, they become embittered or befriend a shallow grave.”

L. K. Samuels (1951) American writer

Source: Ferret: The Reluctant King (2020), p. 138

Men

“Hell, I might be president now if it weren't for the fact I said I had an uncle who was a coal miner. Turns out I didn't have anybody in the coal mines, you know what I mean? I tried that crap — it didn't work.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart http://www.cc.com/video-clips/svsqnx/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-joe-biden ()
2000s, 2004

“Mr. Obama, you can go to hell.”

Rodrigo Duterte (1945) Filipino politician and the 16th President of the Philippines

Philippine President to Obama: 'Go to Hell' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXN2dU28LCE&t=9
Targeted remarks to personalities and institutions

“The most extensive deletions are ordered in regard to the chapter on ‘Aurangzeb’s policy on religion’. Every allusion to what he actually did to the Hindus, to their temples, to the very leitmotif of his rule – to spread the sway of Islam – are directed to be excised from the book. He is to be presented as one who had an aversion – an ordinary sort of aversion, almost a secular one – to music and dancing, to the presence of prostitutes in the court, and that it is these things he banished... In a word, no forcible conversions, no massacres, no destruction of temples. Just that Hinduism had created an exploitative, casteist society. Islam was egalitarian. Hence the oppressed Hindus embraced Islam!
Muslim historians of those times are in raptures at the heap of kafirs who have been dispatched to hell. Muslim historians are forever lavishing praise on the ruler for the temples he has destroyed, for the hundreds of thousands he has got to see the light of Islam. Law books like The Hedaya prescribe exactly the options to which these little textbooks alluded. All whitewashed away.
Objective whitewash for objective history. And today if anyone seeks to restore truth to these textbooks, the shout, ‘Communal rewriting of history’.”

Arun Shourie (1941) Indian journalist and politician

Eminent Historians: Their Technology, Their Line, Their Fraud (1998)

Religion , Time , Law , History

“It's really, really tough because you have to be honest with the American public and you don't want to scare the hell out of them. And then other times, in attempts to calm people down, [leaders] have had people be complacent about it. This is particularly problematic in a ‘gotcha” town like Washington.”

Anthony Fauci (1940) American immunologist and head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

About the 2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States, quoted in 'You don't want to go to war with a president' https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/03/anthony-fauci-trump-coronavirus-crisis-118961, 3 March 2020, Politico.

Time , People

“Cut forward to the present, BOOM! imprint Archaia receives the license to explore the unproduced screenplay in the comics medium and asks me to be involved -- that last point entirely because they knew I'd pursue them like a hound from hell if they didn't let me. Or, worse, I'd totally sulk.”

Simon Spurrier (1981) British comic writer

On his involvement in writing The Power of the Dark Crystal
Interview with Syfy Wire

“Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!”

Robert Burns Tam o' Shanter

Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 201

“Apprise your veiled and drooping hearts that the universe, from the highest heavens [ala al-illiyyin] to the lowest in hell [asfal as-safilin], is a manifestation of God, the Blessed and Exalted, and all are in the threshold of His Power.”

Ruhollah Khomeini (1902–1989) Religious leader, politician

Pithy Aphorisms: Wise Saying and Counsels, Edited by Mansoor Limba, Tehran: The Institute for Compilation and Publication of Imam Khomeini’s Works -- International Affairs Department, p. 6.
Theology and Mysticism

Universe , God , Heart

“Accursed be prayers, to hell with fasts,
and let confession of faith be damned.
O Bullah, I have found the Lord within,
and the world wanders in delusion!”

Bulleh Shah (1680–1757) Punjabi poet

Bulleh Shah, The Love-Intoxicated Iconoclast, p. 130
Stanzas

World , Faith

“We are the body of heaven
and the soul of etermity,
the desolation and pains of hell are within us,
the joy and pleasures of paradise also.
We finish at the start and with ending we begins
in the infinity of space-time the celestial ash wander.”

alexis karpouzos

mystic poetry and spirituality

Soul , Pain , Time , Pleasure

“Love seeketh not itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care,
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.”

William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist

The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
1790s, Songs of Experience (1794)

Sad , Heartbreaking , Despair , Love

“A severe action ensued from dawn to mid-day, when "the army of idolatry and damnation turned its back in flight from the line of battle.... fifty thousand infidels were despatched to hell by the sword... and from the heaps of the slain, the hills and the plains became of one level.”

Hasan Nizami Persian language poet and historian

Source: Elliot and Dowson, Vol 2. 230.

“I have come across most people- with the exception of those that God most High has protected-they rush into misery, worry, the exhaustion of this world, and amassing terrible sins, that will earn them hell-fire, gaining nothing in pursuing their evil deeds… And they know that their evil intentions will neither fulfill their wishes, nor bring any gains; and that with purer intentions they will obtain great rest for their souls.”

Ibn Hazm (994–1064) Arab theologian

Kitab al-Akhlaq wa’l Siyar p: 17

Soul , God , People , World

“Asia gave us dowry deaths and the caste system. Africa elevated famine to an art form. North America cultivated chattel slavery for far longer than I would have dared hope; South America has done things with political oppression that I am obliged to call brilliant; Australia showed the world that the only good aborigine is a dead aborigine; and Antarctica has fabulous weather. Of all the continents that constitute Earth’s terrain, however, Europe remains dearest to my heart and closest to my soul.
I allude here not to the sweatshops, the world wars, or totalitarian socialism (though none of these innovations has escaped my notice) but to the fact that the European imagination endowed me with a degree of glamour—you might even say charm—that in pre-coma times enabled me to function with extraordinary effectiveness. The concept of an Evil One is intrinsic to Islam, of course; the ancient Hebrews had their “adversary,” their satan; the Egyptians feared a dark deity called Set; Zoroastrians believed in Ahriman, essence of destruction (forever warring with Ohrmazd, source of all things bright and beautiful). But only in Christian Europe did the Prince of Hell acquire a personality as vivid and endearing as any you will meet in a Dickens novel.”

James K. Morrow (1947) (1947-) science fiction author

Source: Blameless in Abaddon (1996), Chapter 11 (p. 253; spoken by the Devil)

Soul , Imagination , Time , Dead

“When you were here before,
Couldn't look you in the eye.
You're just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry.
You float like a feather
In a beautiful world.
I wish I was special;
You're so fuckin' specialBut I'm a creep
I'm a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here
I don't belong here”

Thom Yorke (1968) English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter

Creep
Lyrics, Pablo Honey (1993)

Beauty , Angels , Cry , World

“Cause, Principle, and One eternal
From whom being, life, and movement are suspended,
And which extends itself in length, breadth, and depth,
To whatever is in Heaven, on Earth, and Hell;
With sense, with reason, with mind, I discern,
That there is no act, measure, nor calculation, which can comprehend
That force, that vastness and that number,
Which exceeds whatever is inferior, middle, and highest;
Blind error, avaricious time, adverse fortune,
Deaf envy, vile madness, jealous iniquity,
Crude heart, perverse spirit, insane audacity,
Will not be sufficient to obscure the air for me,
Will not place the veil before my eyes,
Will never bring it about that I shall not
Contemplate my beautiful Sun.”

Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) Italian philosopher, mathematician and astronomer

"Of Love" as translated in The Infinite in Giordano Bruno : With a Translation of His Dialogue, Concerning the Cause, Principle, and One (1978) by Sidney Thomas Greenburg, p. 89
Variant translation:
<p>Cause, Principle and One, the Sempiterne,
On whom all being, motion, life, depend.
From whom, in length, breadth, depth, their paths extend
As far as heaven, earth, hell their faces turn :
With sense, with mind, with reason, I discern
That not, rule, reckoning, may not comprehend
That power and bulk and multitude which tend
Beyond all lower, middle, and superne.</p><p> Blind error, ruthless time, ungentle doom,
Deaf envy, villain madness, zeal unwise,
Hard heart, unholy craft, bold deeds begun,
Shall never fill for one the air with gloom,
Or ever thrust a veil before these eyes,
Or ever hide from me my glorious sun.</p>
As quoted in "Giordano Bruno" by Thomas Davidson, The Index Vol. VI. No. 36 (4 March 1886), p. 429
Cause, Principle, and Unity (1584)

Life , Time , Sun , Error

“Life's warp of Heaven and woof of Hell.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

Vol. II, Ch. V Aphorisms and Extracts, p. 75.
Memoirs and Correspondence (1900)

Life

“That’s how they beat the living hell out of us across the country, saying that we’re talking about defunding the police. We’re not. We’re talking about holding them accountable. We’re talking about giving them money to do the right things. We’re talking about putting more psychologists and psychiatrists on the telephones when the 911 calls through. We’re talking about spending money to enable them to do their jobs better, not with more force, with less force and more understanding.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, December
Source: Biden on a call with Civil Rights leaders. ( December 10, 2020 https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders/).

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2020/12/23/biden-did-not-say-country-doomed-because-african-americans/4034937001/ Fact check: Biden's 'country is doomed' quote is being taken out of context on social media

Money , Understanding , Country

“What the hell do you think spies are? Model philosophers measuring everything they do against the word of God or Karl Marx? They’re not. They’re just a bunch of seedy, squalid bastards like me, little men, drunkards, queers, henpecked husbands, civil servants, playing cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten little lives. Do you think they sit like monks in a cell, balancing right against wrong?”

John le Carré (1931) British novelist and spy

from a clip from the film adaptation of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, starring Richard Burton as Alec Leamas, an alcoholic cynical British spy
The Spy Who Came In From the Cold (1963)
Source: Quoted in “The United States of America Has Gone Mad”: John le Carré on Iraq War, Israel & U.S. Militarism, Democracy Now! https://www.democracynow.org/2020/12/25/the_united_states_of_america_has (25 December 2020)

God , Thinking , Men

“I stumbled, slipped... and all was gone
That I had gained. Once more I lay
Before the long bright Hell of ice.
And still the light was far away.
There was red mist before my eyes
Or I could tell you how I went
Across the swaying firmament,
A glittering torture of cold stars,
And how I fought in Titan wars...
And died... and lived again upon
The rack... and how the horses strain
When their red task is nearly done. . .
I only know that there was Pain,
Infinite and eternal Pain.
And that I fell — and rose again.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage

Pain , Light , War , Star

“I crawled. I could not speak or see
Save dimly. The ice glared like fire,
A long bright Hell of choking cold,
And each vein was a tautened wire,
Throbbing with torture — and I crawled.
My hands were wounds.
So I attained
The second Hell.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Source: Young Adventure (1918), The Quality of Courage

“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises (1926)

Way , Dogs

“No evil comes from the fear of hell, no good comes from the promise of heaven.”

Ron English (1959) American artist

Death and the Eternal Forever (2014)

Fear , Evil

“Sticks and stones may break your bones but words can hurt like hell.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Lullaby

Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 14

Hurtful , Hurt

“He’s bright as hell, but I disagree with him.”

Newt Gingrich (1943) Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives

Joe Biden; * https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/joe-biden-newt-gingrich-vp-vice-president-225062
Biden to Gingrich: 'Gonna do it?'
Politico
Kristen
East
July 2, 2016.

“Every age before this one has performed or permitted acts that to us are morally stupefying. So unless we have any reason to think we are more reasonable, morally better or wiser than at any time in the past, it is reasonable to assume there will be some things we are presently doing – possibly while flushed with moral virtue – that our descendants will whistle through their teeth at, and say ‘What the hell were they thinking?’”

Douglas Murray (1979) British political commentator and far-right activist

The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity (2019)

Time , Thinking , Age , Past

“To punish the guilty adequately exceeds the power of any civilised man; for the atrocities which have been committed are such as to be imagined and perpetrated only by demons sallying forth from the lowest depths of hell.”

Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician

Speech in the Guildhall, London, on the Indian Mutiny (9 November 1857), quoted in The Times (10 November 1857), p. 7
1850s

Imagination

“With the works of charity we closed the doors of hell and open ourselves to the sky.”

John Bosco (1815–1888) Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer

“Hell is an element of any religion which is morally healthy.”

James Moffatt (1870–1944) British theologian

as quoted by Miles H. Krumbine in: [Review of What Is Hell?, The Journal of Religion, 10, 3, 1930, 435–436, 0022-4189, 10.1086/480965]

Religion

“We are determined to save our country from the hell of capitalism.”

Earl Browder (1891–1973) American political activist (1891-1973)

Source: What is Communism? (1934), p. 18

Country

“You God damned cowardly pieces of chicken neck filth. I'm going to sue your ass into hell, get ready!”

Alex Jones (1974) American radio host, author, conspiracy theorist and filmmaker

Alex Jones: "I'm going to sue your ass into hell, GET READY!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3H6Qw-yzw0, The Alex Jones Show, February 21 2017
2017

God

“And to the Devill of hell condemne this mein3e;
For quhy sic reformatioune, as I weine
Into Scotland was never hard nor seine.”

David Lindsay (1490–1554) Scottish noble and poet

Source: Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis, Lines 3720-3722

“It is overcoming hell that makes you strong.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) È superare l'inferno che ti rende forte.
Source: prevale.net

Strong

“You can go home. You can go out of Europe. You can go wherever the hell you want.”

Guðmundur Benediktsson (1974) Icelandic footballer and sportscaster

Original Icelandic quote: Þið getið farið heim. Þið getið farið úr Evrópu. Þið getið farið bara hvert sem þið viljið.
A reference to Brexit following Iceland's 2-1 win against England in the last-16 of the 2016 UEFA European Football Championship on 27 June 2016.
Source: [Eiríkur Stefán Ásgeirsson, Verð að vera ég sjálfur, https://timarit.is/page/6731435, 4 July 2020, Fréttablaðið, 2 July 2016, 22, Icelandic]
Source: [Ed Aarons, ‘You can go out of Europe’: Iceland commentator savours win over England, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/27/you-can-go-out-of-europe-iceland-commentator-england-euro-2016, 4 July 2020, The Guardian, 27 June 2016]
Source: [England Has Left Europe Twice in a Week and That Icelandic Commentator Is Ecstatic, https://time.com/4384954/iceland-england-euro-2016-brexit-soccer-football/, 4 July 2020, Time, 27 June 2016]
Source: [Mark Critchley, England vs Iceland: Icelandic commentator goes wild again after historic Euro 2016 win, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/england-vs-iceland-icelandic-commentator-goes-wild-again-after-brilliant-win-a7106841.html, 4 July 2020, The Independent, 28 June 2016]

Home

“You are not forced to turn this world into a hell, thinking that you will receive, or gain the passport of entering heaven.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Thinking , World

“According to the ideology of reincarnation, Earth is both your heaven and your hell. Everything is paid for and rewarded here.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“With the concept of reincarnation, being offered more chances to repent, we will eventually destroy the idea of heaven and hell.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Chance , Idea

“If hell were raked with a fine tooth comb it is exceedingly doubtful whether any such material could be found there as inhabit this village; and should the devil seek a substitute for hell Jonesboro would qualify.”

William G. Brownlow (1805–1877) American newspaper editor, minister, and politician (1805-1877)

Whig. 1847:12:03, 1845:1845:09:03. Reprinted in That D----d Brownlow by Steve Humphrey. Appalachian Consortium Press, 1978. Boone, North Carolina.
Jonesboro Whig (1840 to 1949)

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

Viktor Pinchuk (1969)

Quotes from books, Six months by the islands... and countries (Russian: Полгода по островам... и странам)

Way , Travel

“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants for the hell of it.”

Carlos Castaneda book The Wheel of Time

Source: The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe], (1998), Quotations from A Separate Reality (Chapter 6)

People

“Everyone threw himself, with his wife and children, upon the flames and departed to hell.”

Amir Khusrow (1253–1325) Indian poet, writer, musician and scholar

Khazainu’l-Futuh
Source: quoted in (Oxford in India readings, Themes in Indian history.) Richard Maxwell Eaton - India's Islamic traditions, 711-1750-Oxford University Press (2003) 38.

Children

“Someone is saying we are contemplating sending aid to help the Pakistani refugees. I hope to hell we’re not.”

Richard Nixon (1913–1994) 37th President of the United States of America

Source: FRUS, Nixon-Haig telcon, 29 April 1971, p. 99. quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.

Help , Hope

“You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it! It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

Pat Cadigan (1953) science fiction author

Source: Short fiction, Picking Up the Pieces (2011), p. 191
Context: I pushed her back hard. “You don’t belong with them; you’re not special, you have no place in any unseen world; you’re like me and the rest of our family. Get used to it!” She looked at me like I’d slapped her.
“Oh, sorry,” I said, feeling equally stung by her reaction. “It’s hell being ordinary, but that’s the human condition.”

Family , World

“We know what identity politics does -- it divides, and it polarizes. No matter how you want to look at it, that's just the effect of it no matter how great the intentions are. We all know the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

Marcellus Wiley (1974) American football player

Marcellus Wiley: NBA plan to paint 'Black Lives Matter' on courts 'not a good idea' https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/marcellus-wiley-nba-plan-to-paint-black-lives-matter-on-courts-not-a-good-idea (June 2020)

“A being who can look without weeping on the heart-rending facts that fill the cities of our so-called civilisation has a psychology granitic enough to gaze unmoved on a hellful of roasting souls.”

J. Howard Moore (1862–1916)

Source: The New Ethics (1907), Human Attitude Toward Others, p. 45

Soul , Heart

“A sexy woman is heaven to behold, but hell to live.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: (it) Una donna sexy è il paradiso da vedere, ma un inferno da vivere.
Source: prevale.net

“Through love we're slain, the world's our slaughter house
We've no food nor sleep, the world's our cookhouse.
We've no desire for paradise, because
Our hell's a hundred times loftier than that.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 97

Sleep , Time , Food , Housing

“Hell is where you are and Paradise where you are not.”

Abu Sa'id Abu'l-Khayr (967–1049) poet

Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 96

“I've been over and I've been under,
I've been through all kinds of hell.
Trouble was not only my middle name,
It was my first as well.
Through the years, all I've encountered,
I've just one thing to say:
"Hold on to what you got
and don't let it slip away."”

Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter

I've been taken for far more rides
to places I've never been,
stabbed so many times in the back
I no longer feel a thing.
Oh, ask me what all this has taught me
and I'll tell you what I'll say:
"Hold on to what you got
and don't let it slip away.
Save it for a rainy day."
"Hold On To What You Got" (song)
Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Hold On To What You Got" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7YYinfmOUI (song on YouTube)
(+ Live performance in Japan, 1992. On YouTube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nrmDG7frD4
Song lyrics