Sayings about Hell
The road to hell is strewn with roses. ~ Mexican Proverb
It is good to have friends, even in hell. ~ Spanish Proverb
The best doctor is to be found in hell. ~ Hebrew Proverb
If the devil is your godfather you will be welcome in hell. ~ Sri Lankan Proverb
A young woman is to an old man the horse that he rides to hell. ~ Spanish Proverb
In hell there are no fans. ~ African Proverb
When war begins the devil makes hell bigger. ~ Spanish Proverb
Transactions in Hell also depend upon money. ~ Japanese Proverb
When you reject gifts from heaven you will be rewarded in hell. ~ Japanese Proverb
Even in hell you meet relations. ~ Japanese Proverb
Hell shared with a sage is better than paradise with a fool. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Take one step to hell and you are already half way there. ~ German Proverb
It is better to be in hell with a wise man than in heaven with an idiot. ~ Yiddish Proverb
Hell and the courtroom are always open. ~ American Proverbs
He who comes from hell is not afraid of hot ashes. ~ Myanmar Proverb
In time of war the devil makes more room in hell. ~ German Proverbs
Hell’s roof is made from lost causes. ~ Portuguese Proverb
A man yearns for his paradise but it could become his hell. ~ Icelandic Proverb
The gates of hell are always open, even at midnight. ~ Slovak Proverb
Better visit hell in your lifetime than after you’re dead. ~ Spanish Proverb
Obedience to a woman leads to hell. ~ Arabian Proverb
Even in hell it is good to have friends. ~ Czech Proverb
Who has a bad wife, his hell begins on earth. ~ Dutch Proverbs
You get used to everything — even hell. ~ Russian Proverbs
One devil does not make hell. ~ Italian Proverbs
The road to hell is paved with good intentions. ~ English Proverbs
A young preacher, a new hell. ~ Traditional Proverb
Unless Hell is full, no lawyer will ever be saved. ~ French Proverb
Hell itself can be no worse than the road that leads to it. ~ Yiddish Proverb
An American will go to hell for a bag of coffee. ~ United States Proverb
He who has money can eat ice cream in hell. ~ Lebanese Proverb
He who follows advice from women will end up in hell. ~ Hebrew Proverb
Hell is full of the ungrateful. ~ Spanish Proverbs
If you do good to the Devil, out of gratitude he will deliver you to hell. ~ Czech Proverb
When men take wives they stop fearing hell. ~ Romanian Proverb
Quotations about Hell
Who believes in Hell? Is it a terrible place to which we sinners are condemned? Or is it a place of the imagination, fueled by fears that have built upon the superstitions and religious relics of our society? ~ S. Kaye Saunders
Hell is a city much like London! A populous and smoky city. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Justice of God demands there be an everlasting hell, both as a punishment for the wicked and as a deterrent against those contemplating wickedness. ~ David Michael Lindsey
Hell was not part of the original creation. Hell is God’s fall-back position. Hell is something God was forced to make because people chose to rebel against him and turn against what was best for them and the purpose for which they were created. ~ Lee Strobel
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. ~ Jonathan Edwards
Each lost soul will be a hell unto itself, the boundless fire raging in its very vitals. ~ James Joyce
To appreciate heaven well, it’s good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ~ Will Carleton
Maybe that’s what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up. ~ Anne Rice
Hell is the final sentence that says you refused regularly to live for the purpose for which you were made, and the only alternative is to sentence you away for all eternity. So it is punishment. But it’s also the natural consequence of a life that has been lived in a certain direction. ~ Lee Strobel
Let me say to you here very clearly: it is my firm opinion, and it is my foremost conviction, and it is what I fervently preach, that Hell is hot. ~ Shelton L. Smith
Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, where no one beame of comfort peeps in it. ~ Robert Herrick
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. ~ John Milton
Hell’s darkness is the very absence of God’s living, illuminating light. ~ Steve Yates
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended. ~ Tom Stoppard
Hell is every day. It’s now. ~ Malika Mokeddem
Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell, the tortures of that inward hell! ~ Lord Byron
Hell is not evil; it’s a place where evil gets punished. Hell is not pleasant, appealing, or encouraging. But Hell is morally good, because a good God must punish evil. ~ Randy Alcorn
The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money. ~ Thomas Carlyle
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. ~ Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell. ~ Austin O’Malley
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. ~ Andre Gide
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God’s thing. ~ Thomas Howard
Hell ain’t half full. ~ Cormac McCarthy
If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God. ~ Gemma Galgani
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. ~ William A. Sunday
Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there. ~ Bonnie Raitt
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell. ~ Dave Matthews
You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas. ~ Davy Crockett
Ours is a world where people don’t know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it. ~ Don Marquis
Hell doesn’t exist. It is a creation by traditions of men and a misunderstanding of the Scriptures. ~ Leif A. Werner
Hell is the wrath of God–His hate of sin. ~ Philip James Bailey
Hell doesn’t make God less loving. It reveals the depth of his love, which went to hell and back for us. ~ Phil Moore
If you’re going through hell, keep going. ~ Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Just because your sins have landed you in Hell doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek Grace. ~ Edward Lee
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ~ H. L. Mencken
The fact that most people don’t believe in hell doesn’t mean they won’t end up there. ~ Cliffe Knechtle
Hell’s my wife’s home town. ~ Bob Dylan
Hell doesn’t exist. Paradise doesn’t exist…. they are only subjective dimensions of our minds, crystallized in ether formed by our active thoughts. In these regions our inner sufferings last and multiply. ~ Maurizio Cavallo
Hell is other people. ~ Karl Marx
It is easy to go down to hell; night and day the gates of Dark Death stand wide; but to climb back up again, to retrace one’s steps to the open air, their lies the problem, the difficult task. ~ Virgil, The Aeneid
Hell is paved with good Samaritans. ~ William M. Holden
There are materials enough in every man’s mind to make a hell there. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
God too has his hell: it is his love of man. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Maybe there is no hell. Of course, it’s a gamble to live as if hell doesn’t exist, because if we’re wrong, the result could be disastrous. ~ Garry Poole
Too hot to go to church? What about Hell? ~ Author Unknown
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. ~ Robert Frost
Do not be troubled by St. Bernard’s saying that “Hell is full of good intentions and wills.” ~ Saint Francis de Sales
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell. ~ Aldous Huxley
Hell was created not for mankind, but for Satan and his angels…. Hell is not God’s intention for mankind. But remember–he gave us free will. He gave us a choice. ~ John Eldredge
If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet. ~ Charles M. Allen
Redemption can be found in hell itself if that’s where you happen to be. ~ Lin Jensen
Money doesn’t spend in hell…. The devil deals in a different coin. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton
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
Hell doesn’t come looking for humanity since it’s a dead energy field, so it is humanity that is looking for hell. ~ Chantha Tan
Not believing in hell doesn’t lower the temperature down there one degree. ~ Neil T. Anderson
Hell doesn’t have a before. Hell is stuck in time, repeating endlessly. Hell doesn’t have a past. It just is. ~ Jonathan Lethem
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. ~ Lord Byron
All right, then, I’ll go to hell. ~ Mark Twain Quotes
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. ~ Caskie Stinnett
Hell is truth seen too late. ~ Henry Gardiner Adams
Perhaps the thought of going to hell doesn’t alarm you, because you don’t believe in it. That may be your belief, but if hell exists, your lack of belief won’t make it go away. Standing on a freeway and saying, “I don’t believe in trucks” won’t make the 18-wheeler disappear. ~ Kirk Cameron
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. ~ H. G. Wells
Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as. ~ Aldous Huxley
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still. ~ EE Cummings
Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.~ Samuel Beckett
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings. ~ George Herbert
It is impossible to have a lively hope in another life, and yet be deeply immersed in the enjoyments of this. ~ Francis Atterbury
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. ~ Philip James Bailey
Hell is paved with great granite blocks hewn from the hearts of those who said, “I can do no other.” ~ Heywood Broun
It’s only a popular myth that Hell doesn’t exist. And it’s also cruel not to believe in Hell. For isn’t it cruel to tell skaters on thin ice that there’s no water under the ice and that they can’t possibly drown? ~ Peter Kreeft
There is no redemption from hell. ~ Pope Paul III Quotes
Hell is the centre of evils and, as you know, things are more intense at their centres than at their remotest points. ~ James Joyce
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. ~ Arthur Rimbaud
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
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ~ Karl Popper
So live that you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. ~ Author Unknown
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard. ~ Carl Sandburg
Personally I didn’t believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him. ~ Laurell Hamilton
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. ~ George Bernard Shaw
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. ~ Robert Frost
Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Hell is nothing else but the perversion into evil of the good that proceeds from the Lord. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Those are dead even for this life who hope for no other. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Quotes
Hell is a state of mind. It is a remnant of ancient man’s fears and an anachronism from our primitive past. I disavow it; therefore it does not exist. ~ S. Kaye Saunders
It does not require a decision to go to hell. ~ Author Unknown
Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Hell is other people. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. ~ William A. Sunday
I have no fear of the Hereafter. An orthodox hell could hardly be more torture than my life has been. ~ Robert E. Howard
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. ~ Dick Gregory
If hell doesn’t exist, then neither does justice. ~ The Living Church
This was hell then; it wasn’t anything to worry about: it was just his own familiar room. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is. ~ Michael Marshall
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
Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes. ~ Charles Henry Parkhurst
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. ~ Ben Johnson
Hell is full of good wishes or desires. ~ Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Hell is full of good intentions. ~ Antonio Guevera
The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ~ C. S. Lewis
If I’m going to Hell, I’m going there playing the piano. ~ Jerry Lee Lewis
All right, God, send me to hell. You think You’re frightening me with Your hell, don’t You? You think Your hell is worse than mine. ~ Dorothy Parker
And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes. ~ Samuel Johnson
