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Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high asheaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measurethereof islonger thanthe earth, and broader than the sea.
Bible (Old Testament)— Job11:7-9.
I don't give people hell. I tell them the truth and they think it's hell.
Roy Keane— 2002 On RTE, 28 May.
Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.1, l.690-2.
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
— 1979 In the NewYorkTimes Book Review,15 Jul.
I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it is hell.
harry s. truman— 1956 Interview, in Look, 3 Apr.
Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I sure as hell don’t understand everything.
greg bear— p. 73 (Heads (1990))
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes.
robert burton— Section 3, member 1, subsection 2.
This is the soldier brave enough to tellThe glory-dazzled world that "war is hell":Lover of peace, he looks beyond the strife,And rides through hell to save his country's life.
henry van dyke— The Statue of Sherman by St. Gaudens (1904).
Ah, well... hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.
susan kay— Erik (p. 289)
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.
andré malraux— Section 2 (La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933))
It is a course which perhaps would not have been necessary had it been possible to form a state composed of wise men, but as every multitude is fickle, full of lawless desires, unreasoned passion, and violent anger, the multitude must be held in by invisible terrors and suchlike pageantry. For this reason I think, not that the ancients acted rashly and at haphazard in introducing among the people notions concerning the gods and beliefs in the terrors of hell, but that the moderns are most rash and foolish in banishing such beliefs.
polybius— Histories, VI, 56:10-12
— Often quoted in the version found in The Fine Art of Baloney Detection by Carl Sagan from The Demon-Haunted World:Since the masses of the people are inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate, and reckless of consequences, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent gods, and the belief in punishment after death.
You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?
tiptree, james, jr— "I'm Too Big But I Love To Play" in Ten Thousand Light-Years From Home (1973)
If it's about the lives of my men and their safety, I'd go through hell with a gasoline can.
allen west— At his 2004 hearing, regarding his conduct of an interrogation. Department of the Army, 43rd Military Police Detachment (CID)(FWD), 10th Military Police Battalion, United States Army Criminal Investigation Command (February 6, 2004). Memorandum, Subject: CID Report Of Investigation – Final – 0152-03-CID469-60212-5C1A/5C2/5T1. Retrieved on September 28, 2010.
If hell has no answer for the questioning dead, it is not because it refuses to answer (for rigorous, alas, in observance, is the imperishable fire), but it is because hell has nothing to say, will say nothing eternally.
Georges Bernanos— p.42 (La joie (Joy) 1929)
There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
thomas carlyle— As quoted in A Dictionary of Thoughts : Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern (1891) edited by Tryon Edwards. p. 327.
If this uncertain age in which we dwell Were really as dark as I hear sages tell, And I convinced that they were really sages, I should not curse myself with it to hell.
robert frost— "The Lesson for Today" (1942)
Now hell and heaven grapple on our backs and all our old pretense is ripped away. Aye, and God's icy wind will blow.
Arthur Miller— John Proctor
The man who is satisfied, because he thinks he is safe, who feels that he has religion enough, because he thinks he has enough to save him from hell, is as ignorant of the power as he is a stranger to the consolation of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
gardiner spring— P. 106. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.
lord byron— Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816), Stanza 42.
It is one thing to mourn for sin because it exposes us to hell, and another to mourn for it because it is an infinite evil. It is one thing to mourn for it because it is injurious to ourselves; another, to mourn for it because it is offensive to God. It is one thing to be terrified; another, to be humbled.
— Gardiner Spring, p. 506. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
— Christian Scriver, reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, p. 537 (1895)
Now the devil that told me I did well Says that this deed is chronicled in hell.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Richard II, Act V, Scene 5.
Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not. (A reference to Matthew 16:18.)
— Our Church, Her Children and Institutions (1908), Henry Coyle, et al, Angel Guardian Press, Boston, Mass. P. 98.
See you in hell
— Who: Allen O'Neil
— Source: Metal Slug-Metal Slug 4
— Notes Character was always used as a mini-boss in the final mission, no matter how badly beaten he was.
Of dire chimeras and enchanted isle And rifted rocks whose entrance leads to hell,^ For such there be, but unbelief is blind.
john milton— 1634 Comus, A Mask, l.515-17.
Rolfe's vice was spiritual more than it was carnal: it might be said that he was a pander and a swindler, because he cared for nothing but his faith. He would be a priest or nothing, so nothing it had to be…If he could not have Heaven, he would have hell, and the last footprints seem to point unmistakably towards the Inferno.
frederick rolfe— Graham Greene "Frederick Rolfe: Edwardian Inferno" (1934); cited from Collected Essays (New York: The Viking Press, 1969) p. 175
The safest road to hell is the gradual one the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
C. S. Lewis— Letter XII (The Screwtape Letters (1942))
In Mahabharata there is a mention of the Pandavas going to Heaven and Kauravas to hell .
— p.89 (The Big Picture Making Sense Out of Life and Religion)
Then those whose balance (of good deeds ) is heavy, - they will attain salvation: But those whose balance is light, will be those Who have lost their souls ; In hell will they abide (23:102-3). The Quran also talks about those who give their lives “to earn the pleasure of God ”(2:207) and that “God will deliver those who fear Him, for they have earned Heaven . (39:61)"
— Quran, in "Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (01-Aug-2002)", p.127
I'll be in hell before you start breakfast! Let her rip!
— Who: Tom "Black Jack" Ketchum, notorious train robber
— context: Said after springing up the gallow steps to his execution; the rope was too long, and he was decapitated. [13][14]
