Hell

(202 votes)   One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

W. H. Auden
1907-1973, Anglo-American Poet

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(175 votes)   The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(160 votes)   The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

C. S. Lewis
1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist

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(127 votes)   A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(120 votes)   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.

T. S. Eliot
1888-1965, American-born British Poet, Critic

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(116 votes)   When you are going thru hell the only choice is to keep going

Winston Churchill
Prime Minister

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(111 votes)   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
1888-1948, French Novelist, Political Writer

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(109 votes)   The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

Virgil
c. 70 - 19 BC, Roman Poet

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(101 votes)   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
1740-1814, French Author

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(98 votes)   Abandon all hope, you who enter here!

Dante (Alighieri)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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(89 votes)   Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(88 votes)   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
1930-, British Author

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(76 votes)   There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Johnson
1600-?British Clergyman, Poet

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(58 votes)   If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

William A. Sunday
1862-1935, American Evangelist

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(54 votes)   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)
1265-1321, Italian Philosopher, Poet

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