Quotes about hell
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Edvard Munch photo

“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

T.S. Eliot photo
Ivan Illich photo

“To hell with the future. It's a man-eating idol.”

Ivan Illich (1926–2002) austrian philosopher and theologist
Cecelia Ahern photo

“To hell with you all, I DO believe”

Source: If You Could See Me Now

Cassandra Clare photo
Margaret Atwood photo
Stephen Fry photo
Jack Kerouac photo
Jennifer Donnelly photo
Tom Robbins photo
Robert Redford photo
Dorothy Parker photo

“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

Nora Roberts photo

“Why the hell shouldn't I run away with the circus?”

Source: Water for Elephants

Cassandra Clare photo
Jorge Luis Borges photo

“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

Zora Neale Hurston photo
David Foster Wallace photo

“Hell hath no fury like a coolly received postmodernist.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Source: Girl With Curious Hair

Louis-ferdinand Céline photo
Armistead Maupin photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Drive fast, mundane. Drive like hell was following you.”

Jace to Simon
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“Has anyone ever told you you’re sexy as hell when you’re mathematizing?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

Max Brooks photo
George Carlin photo
Jim Butcher photo
Ava Gardner photo

“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

Flannery O’Connor photo
Stephen King photo
George MacDonald photo
Rachel Caine photo
Derek Landy photo
Flannery O’Connor photo

“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Herman Melville photo
Adam Mansbach photo
John Stuart Mill photo

“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.”

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

Chuck Palahniuk photo
Carl Sandburg photo
Raymond Chandler photo
Jenny Han photo
Marianne Williamson photo

“Love in your mind produces love in your life. This is the meaning of heaven.
Fear in your mind produces fear in your life. This is the meaning of hell.”

Marianne Williamson (1952) American writer

Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

Elizabeth Gilbert photo
John Piper photo
Malorie Blackman photo
William Gibson photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo

“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

Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Richelle Mead photo
Paulette Jiles photo

“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

André Malraux photo

“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 photo
Karl Pilkington photo

“I know who I am. Bloody hell, I'm getting enough bills for Karl Pilkington so I hope I am him, 'cos if I'm not, I have no idea who I'm paying for.”

Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer

Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington

John Steinbeck photo
Mary Doria Russell photo
Stephen King photo
Rachel Caine photo

“I stand corrected. Afternoons are hard. Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Bite Club

John Steinbeck photo
Jim Butcher photo

“Hell's bells, irony blows.”

Source: Blood Rites

Stephen King photo

“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

Jim Butcher photo
Rod Serling photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Jim Butcher photo
Holly Black photo
David Foster Wallace photo

“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.”

Source: Infinite Jest

Emily Brontë photo

“Existence, after losing her, would be hell”

Source: Wuthering Heights

Douglas Adams photo
Paulo Coelho photo

“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.”

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.

George Carlin photo
Steven Wright photo
Victor Hugo photo

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Source: Ninety-Three

Ben Okri photo
Julia Child photo
Richard Matheson photo
Sherrilyn Kenyon photo
Anne Sexton photo

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters