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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
-W. H. Auden
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Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave.
-J. G. Ballard
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Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
-Arnold Bennett
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And what have you laymen made of hell? A kind of penal servitude for eternity, on the lines of your convict prisons on earth, to which you condemn in advance all the wretched felons your police have hunted from the beginning -- enemies of society, as you call them. You're kind enough to include the blasphemers and the profane. What proud or reasonable man could stomach such a notion of God's justice? And when you find that notion inconvenient it's easy enough for you to put it on one side. Hell is not to love any more, Madame. Not to love any more!
-Georges Bernanos
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Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, I can do no other.
-Heywood Broun
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.
-Lord (George Gordon) Byron
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To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
-Will Carleton
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
-Thomas Carlyle
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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.
-Dante Alighieri
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Abandon all hope, you who enter here!
-Dante Alighieri
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
-Marquis De Sade
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We are indeeed being led to a pit, as it was written
-James Dye
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Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone.
-TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
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I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
-Robert Frost
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Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
-Robert Frost
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Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
-Dick Gregory
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When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn't like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus. I said, That's where I got my information about hell.
-Vance Havner
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Hell is paved with good Samaritans.
-William M. Holden
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Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
-Thomas Howard
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The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way.
-William James
The Principles of Psychology, 1890
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There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
-Ben Johnson
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
-C.S. Lewis
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If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
-Jerry Lee Lewis
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Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib'd one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.
-Christopher Marlowe
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Books about Hell
