“Which is worse, Hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.”
Source: Fight Club
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Chuck Palahniuk 555
American novelist, essayist 1962Related quotes
May 24, 2012 http://archive.is/R6lWp
2010s
“We are not saved because we're good. We're good because we're saved.”
Lufkin, Texas http://www.kidbrothers.net/words/concert-transcripts/lufkin-texas-jul1997-full.html (July 19, 1997)
In Concert
from the play "God".
Without Feathers (1975)
“Just because we're adults doesn't automatically mean we can save you…”
Vorkosigan Saga, Falling Free (1988)
Source: 1890s, The Principles of Psychology (1890), Ch. 4
“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
Source: In a Free State (1971)
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Before we're through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell.”
Remark in December 1941, after the attack of Pearl Harbor, as quoted in Roger Parkinson, Attack on Pearl Harbour (1973), p. 117; James Bradley, Flyboys (2004), p. 138.