Quotes about hell
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Source: The Forbidden Game

“Maybe… you'll fall in love with me all over again."
"Hell," I said, "I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?"
"Yes. I want to ruin you."
"Good," I said. "That's what I want too.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Love

“Wow, that was fun. Any place else you want to take me while we’re here? Maybe there’s a darker corner of hell than that hall of flesh-hungry demons, huh? (Sin)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Devil May Cry

“Creepy as hell. You ever see that TV movie about the clown in the sewer?”

Stephen King book Mr. Mercedes

Source: Mr. Mercedes

“He snorted. "They were probably scared."
"Scared!" For some reason, that hurt, just a little. She felt her lower lip wobble. "I'm not that bad, am I?"
"Worse," he said cheerfully. "You're hell on wheels. You're just lucky I like hot rods”

Linda Howard (1950) American writer

Source: Mr. Perfect

Hurt

“Hell’s put in a skating rink,” Shane said. “This is actually edible, Eve.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: The Dead Girls' Dance

“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That's living.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

Love, Pain, Friendship, Joy

“People fell in love, and lost, and moved on. He didn’t know why he couldn’t. He didn’t know why he didn’t even want to. All he knew was that whatever he had to owe to Hell or Heaven for this chance, he was going to make it count.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

Love, People, Chance

“Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

Evil

“Hell, yes," Dev says, sitting up now. "Don't get me wrong - we're totally going to make the beast with two backs tonight. But if we do it right, it's going to feel like holding hands.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

Feeling

“Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.”

Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union

The Sign (May 1938) This has been misquoted as: The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Truth

“This is a hell of dull talk… How about some of that champagne?”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

“Who here wants to be a writer?' I asked. Everyone in the room raised his hand. 'Why the hell aren't you home writing?' I said, and left the stage.”

Leon Uris (1924–2003) American novelist

Source: Qb VII

Home

“I guess I just don't get the point. It's like, why should you bother getting attached to anything if,

A: It's never gonna last, and
B: It hurts like hell when it's over?”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Hurt

“Hell’s bells. I don’t call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.”

Jim Butcher book Small Favor

Source: Small Favor

God

“So when a dragon is directly over you, well, even if you're me and you're kind of used to it, your medulla oblongata is still telling you 'the sky is falling, you're about to die, run like hell.”

Robin McKinley Dragonhaven

Source: Dragonhaven

“Whoever we are here, we might be princesses somewhere else. Or writers. Or scientists. Or presidents. Or whatever the hell we want to be that everyone else says we can't.”

Candace Bushnell book The Carrie Diaries

Source: The Carrie Diaries

Princess

“People will always go. Always. They always believe the can make a better life than in the old world.
What the hell, maybe they can.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Life, People, World

“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 30 (pp. 194-195)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
Context: (She is reciting the Lord’s prayer) Now we come to forgiveness. Don’t worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important things. For instance: keep the others safe, if they are safe. Don’t let them suffer too much. If they have to die, let it be fast. You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

“How do you know about Boy George? (Jesse)
I was in hell, Jesse. What do you think they used to torture me with? Bad pop songs. (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

Boy, Thinking

“For a second I thought I might actually be alive,” I said, looking at Nick’s unshaven face. “Now I know— I’ve gone to Hell and you’re my nursemaid.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Bites

“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me, with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Smile, Kiss, Light

“But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.”

Susan Beth Pfeffer book Life As We Knew It

Source: Life As We Knew It

Waiting, Dead

“What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

People, Truth, Hurt

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

Don Marquis (1878–1937) American writer

People, World

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”

Antonin Artaud (1896–1948) French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre director

Van Gogh, the Man Suicided by Society (1947)

Painting

“I was twenty then. What the hell, I used to say, take your time, Bandini. You got ten years to write a book, so take it easy, get out and learn about life, walk the streets. That’s your trouble: your ignorance of life.”

John Fante book Ask the Dust

Source: Ask the Dust

Life, Books, Learning, Time

“I have three rules to live by: Get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin, and when all else fails, run like hell.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Source: Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews

Drink

“everyone is dead and this is hell.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Dead

“Between hell now, and hell later, Sassenach," he said, his speech measured and precise, "I will take later, every time.”

Diana Gabaldon book Dragonfly in Amber

Source: Dragonfly in Amber

Time

“He makes a pained sound. "Bloody hell, woman, I think a part of me wants to keep you this way.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Dreamfever

Pain, Way, Thinking, Parting

“Everyone wants to know why customer service has gone to hell in a handbasket. I want to know why customer behavior has gone to hell in a handbasket.”

Brené Brown (1965) US writer and professor

Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Behavior

“BRODIE:

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for SEGA.”

Kevin Smith (1970) American screenwriter, actor, film producer, public speaker and director

“I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.”

Jim Butcher Dead Beat

Source: Dead Beat

Fear, Feeling, Knowledge, Learning

“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Micah

Source: Micah

Truth

“I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly.”

Dan Rather (1931) Journalist, Anchor

Understanding

“You can’t just decide to be happy.”

“No, you can’t. But you can sure as hell decide to be miserable. Is that what you want?”

Lev Grossman The Magicians

Source: The Magicians

Happiness

“No, I thought. Not just Hell. Really, Heaven was just as guilty. What kind of group could advocate goodness and not allow its members to love?”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

Love

“I believe I am in Hell, therefore I am”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.”

Carrie Fisher book Wishful Drinking

Source: Wishful Drinking

“I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Life

“Then who shot me? (Zarek)
One of them idiot Squires. Hell if I know which one. They all kind of look alike when they’re not yours. (Jess)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Dance with the Devil

Source: Dance with the Devil

“I was caught between going yippy-skippy i get to play with them both, and running like hell.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

“Money doesn't spend in hell, Wilkes. The devil deals in a different coin.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Blue Moon

Source: Blue Moon

Money

“I sounded like Horton the Elephant. "A person is a person no matter how small." What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire?”

Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist

Quotes, Personality

“I don't want to go to Peru."
How do you know? You've never been there."
I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.”

Richard Paul Evans (1962) American writer

Source: The Sunflower

“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”

Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye

Source: The Hard Goodbye

“It never looked as terrible as it was and it made her wonder if hell was a pretty place too. Fire and brimstone all right, but hidden in lacy groves.”

Toni Morrison book Beloved

Source: Beloved

“No, it’s not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven. Earth is earth. Dead is dead. You’ll find out for yourself soon enough. It won’t help the situation for you to get all upset.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Damned

Source: Damned

Feeling, Help, Dead

“Sometimes women scare the hell out of me.”

Michael Crichton (1942–2008) American author, screenwriter, film producer

Source: Disclosure

Women

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Life, Death, Understanding, Drawing

“Katherine," he said. He was still smiling.
"Yes." She leaned closer.
"Katherine…"
"Yes, Damon?"
"Go to hell.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: The Fury / Dark Reunion

Smile

“Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.”

Aldous Huxley book Eyeless in Gaza

Source: Eyeless in Gaza

“So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."
Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely.”

Harlan Coben book Fade Away

Source: Fade Away

“He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)”

John Piper (1946) American writer

Source: Don't Waste Your Life

Life, God, World, Soul

“We do not believe in heaven or hell…; we do not believe in eternal damnation. We believe only in the unavoidable horror of hurting others and of likewise being hurt.”

Alice Walker (1944) American author and activist

Source: By The Light Of My Father's Smile

Hurt

“You know what? Don’t even worry about it,” I said. “Cory Wheeler already asked me. I can tell him I changed my mind.”
“Who the hell is Corky Wheeler?”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Change

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”

George Harrison (1943–2001) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Feeling, Thinking

“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.”

John Wesley (1703–1791) Christian theologian

God, Fear

“Hell,” he said. “Just when it was getting interesting, too.” And he leaped into the water after his friend.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Water

“Dante's poem, Langdon was now reminded, was not so much about the misery of hell as it was about the power of the human spirit to endure any challenge, no matter how daunting.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“Which is not really a hell of a lot to ask, Lord, because the final incredible truth is that I am not guilty. All I did was take your gibberish seriously… and you see where it got me? My primitive Christian instincts have made me a criminal.”

Hunter S. Thompson book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Source: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Truth

“Hell is truth known too late.”

J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop

Source: The Upper Room (1888), Ch. XIX: "Thoughts for Young Men"

Truth

“What's up?" I asked.

You tell me," he said. "You were the one about ready to start making out with Adrian."

It was an experiment," I said. "It was part of my therapy."

What the hell kind of therapy are you in?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Parting

“Wild and disrespectful? Who the hell are you anyway? Outsourced help?”

Richelle Mead Shadow Kiss

Source: Shadow Kiss

Help

“Agad bowed to the Fairy Queen. 'You are most wise, your majesty. Some imagine the difference between heaven and hell to be a matter of geography. Not so. The difference is much more evident in the individuals who dwell there.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Keys to the Demon Prison

Imagination

“That's not fair," I said.
"Georgina," he said simply. "We're in Hell.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Revealed

“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

As quoted in "Works in Progress" in The New York Times Book Review (15 July 1979), page BR1

“Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

On writing for adults, as quoted in Of Sneetches and Whos and the Good Dr. Seuss: Essays on the Writings and Life of Theodor Geisel (1997) by Thomas Fensch, p. 96

Children

“She'll go to hell. They all will. If hell will even have them.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

“No, really," I said. "Now that we know that Flores is really this nasty, fiery, superpowerful nothing-can-kill-me demon from hell, maybe we should consider just giving Christy to him?”

Patricia Briggs book Night Broken

Source: Night Broken

“Love can take us to heaven or hell, but it always takes us somewhere. Therefore, be prepared to travel…”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Love, Travel

“It was one of the primary rules of thievery. When hiding, sneaking, and trickery are all out, the correct answer is "run like hell.”

Ari Marmell (1974) D&D game writer

Source: Thief's Covenant

“I think some people call this love. I call it hell.”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

Love, People, Thinking

“It's a hell of a thing; killin' a man. You take away everything he ever had and ever would have.”

Clint Eastwood (1930) actor and director from the United States

“So maybe I'll spend some years in prison, but you'll have a big head start on me in hell!”

Chuck Palahniuk book Invisible Monsters

Source: Invisible Monsters

“What the hell is wrong with you?" he asked.
It was a good question.”

Maureen Johnson book 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Source: 13 Little Blue Envelopes

Question

“Gentlemen of the human race, I say to hell with the lot of you.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

“My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Faith, Religion, Feeling

“Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again.

'Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,' he agrees.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Shadowfever

Love, Life, Hunger

“Hell is paved with good intentions.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

April 14, 1775 Malone added a footnote indicating this is a "proverbial sentence", quoting an earlier 1651 source. At least two other sources appear prior to Johnson. John Ray, in 1670, cited as a proverb, "Hell is paved with good intentions." Even earlier than that, it has been attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153), as "Hell is full of good intentions or desires." [alt.quotations, Earlier Attributions, Wilson, Robert, UseNet, 2009-01-06] Note that "The road to Hell…" is not part of the quotation. The Samuel Johnson web site suggests this entry is dated 16 April, but it appears to be part of the previous entry. Samuel Johnson web site http://www.samueljohnson.com/road.html Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2