hell Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

44 hell Quotes
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“There is in hell a place stone-built throughout, Called Malebolge, of an iron hue, Like to the wall that circles it about.”
Dante ("Dante Alighieri") Quotes
Source: Inferno (canto XVIII, l. 1)
“We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there.”
John Dryden Quotes
Source: Tyrannic Love (epilogue)
“Hell is paved with the skulls of great scholars, and paled in with the bone of great men.”
Giles Firmin Quotes
Source: The Real Christian, quoted as a proverb
“Hell is a half-filled auditorium.”
Giles Firmin Quotes
Source: The Real Christian, quoted as a proverb
“Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding sheet of Edward's race; Give ample room and verge enough The characters of Hell to trace.”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Bard (canto II)
“Hell is full of good intentions. [Sp., El infierno es lleno de buenas intenciones.]”
Thomas Gray Quotes
Source: Bard (canto II)
“Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.”
George Herbert Quotes
Source: Jacula Prudentum
“Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
“Hell is paved with good samaritans.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
“Maybe this world is another planet's hell.”
Robert Herrick Quotes
Source: Noble Numbers--Hell
“A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.”
Dorothy Gilman Quotes
“Hell is paved with good Samaritans.”
William M. Holden Quotes
“Coffee should be black as Hell, strong as death, and sweet as love.”
Turkish Proverb Quotes
“Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.”
Mary Baker Eddy Quotes
“Heaven has a road, but no one travels it; Hell has no gate but men will dig to get there.”
Chinese Proverb Quotes
“To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.”
Will Carleton Quotes
“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.”
George Eliot Quotes
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
A. W. Tozer Quotes
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine . . . . War is hell.”
William T. Sherman Quotes