Quotes about hell page 8
“Fuckhead:
The name’s MariKETA.
Go to hell,
The WITCH, doing a creepy spell somewhere right now.”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
“To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.”
Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
“To hell with you all, I DO believe”
Cecelia Ahern book If You Could See Me Now
Source: If You Could See Me Now
“Jace was kissing her like he thought he might go to hell for doing it, but it would be worth it.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
“It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.”
Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin
Source: The Blind Assassin
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds - Awake
“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”
Robert Redford (1936) actor and film director from the United States
“You think You're frightening me with Your hell, don't You? You think Your hell is worse than mine.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker
“Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.”
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”
Sara Gruen book Water for Elephants
Source: Water for Elephants
“Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.”
Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature
El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.
As quoted in Borges Verbal (1999) edited by Pilar Bravo and Mario Paoletti, p. 156
“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: Girl With Curious Hair
“Drive fast, mundane. Drive like hell was following you.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Bones
Jace to Simon
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)
“Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland.”
Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed
Source: Lover Revealed
“Has anyone ever told you you’re sexy as hell when you’re mathematizing?”
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dark Desires After Dusk
“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
“I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.”
Rudyard Kipling book The Light That Failed
Source: The Light That Failed
“Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.”
Ava Gardner (1922–1990) American actress
Source: Ava: My Story
“We have a new problem, fresh from the oven and hot as hell.”
Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora
Source: The Lies of Locke Lamora
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“What the hell?" I asked. Is this daring escape being sponsored by Honda?”
Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice
Source: Last Sacrifice
John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) British philosopher and political economist
Source: An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings
“To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Source: Burning Chrome (anthology, 1986)
“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry
“Curran looked at me. “What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?”
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Strikes
“A mother-in-law dies only when another devil is needed in hell.”
Francois Rabelais (1494–1553) major French Renaissance writer
“The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.”
André Malraux (1901–1976) French novelist, art theorist and politician
Section 2
La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)
Cheryl Strayed book Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Source: Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Bite Club
“Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused”
Elliot Perlman book Seven Types of Ambiguity
Source: Seven Types of Ambiguity
John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent
The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), unplaced by chapter
“May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.”
Stephen King (1947) American author
Source: Wolves of the Calla
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Shifts
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Jacob's Faith
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”
David Foster Wallace book Infinite Jest
Source: Infinite Jest
“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”
Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
“Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.”
William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
Douglas Adams book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Source: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Context: Love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we always face a brand-new situation. Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. We simply have to accept it, because it is what nourishes our existence. If we reject it, we die of hunger, because we lack the courage to reach out a hand and pluck the fruit from the branches of the tree of life. We have to take love where we find it, even if it means hours, days, weeks of disappointment and sadness.
The moment we begin to seek love, love begins to seek us.
And to save us.
“If warm air rises, Heaven could be hotter than Hell.”
Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist
Source: Ninety-Three
“The first principle of freedom is the right to go to hell in your own handbasket.”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) American science fiction author
“Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Rob Thurman (1950) American writer
Source: Nightlife
“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Source: Paradise Lost
