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But I say unto you,That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say,Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Bible (NewTestament)— St Matthew 5:22.
: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. :That'swhattheysay, but sometimes Ithink that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
— BRICKBIGDADDY1955 Cat on a HotTin Roof, act 2.
What I'm suggesting is, stand for yourself, be for something and the hell with it. Because the hand-wringers and the editorialists and the sigh-and-pontificate crowd will be against you, whatever you do.
james carville— March 11, 2002, interview with Joan Walsh [7]
I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
dave grohl— Maxim Magazine (January 2008)
Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.
joseph mccabe— What Gods Cost Man (1933)
Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,* * * * * *And boldly venture to whatever placeFarthest from pain?
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book IV, line 889.
You show signs of levity , and that is the one thing not permitted here. This place is for serious persons only. If you are not serious now, by hell you'll get serious pretty quick!
r. a. lafferty— Tiresias, Ch. 7
Woman is [...] finally screwing and your groin and buttocks and thighs ache like hell and you're all wet and maybe bloody and it wasn't like a Hollywood movie at all but jesus at least you're not a virgin any more but is this what it's all about? And meanwhile he's asking, "Did you come?"
robin morgan— "Barbarous Rituals", in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist, p 110.
As I understand it, the Holy Church teaches that there are two worlds: the world of everything we can see and hear and touch, and another world, the spiritual world of heaven and hell. Barnard and Stokes were two how shall I put it renegade theologians who postulated the existence of numerous other worlds like this one, neither heaven nor hell, but material and sinful. They are there, close by, but invisible and unreachable.
philip pullman— The Master of Jordan College to the Librarian, in Ch. 2 : The Idea of North
What sentence shall be given on mine? Of man, As ill or well God means me, well or ill Shall judgment pass upon me:;: but of God, If God himself be righteous or be God, Who being unrighteous were but god of hell, The sentence given shall judge me just...
algernon charles swinburne— Faliero, Act III, Sc. 1.
She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.
— Chapter 1 (p. 6) (God’s War (2011))
Go to hell.
— Who: Pvt. Pyle
— Note: Pyle, a POW, has his throat slit with a katana by the Japanese soldier he says this to.
Over a half-century has passed since the hell of the Holocaust, but its spectre still hangs over the world and doesn’t allow us to forget.
— Letter to the Polish Senate (2007), quoted in "Irena Sendler: An Unsung Heroine" by Louis Bülow (2007)
Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "The Library of Babel" (1941).
And, bid him go to hell, to hell he goes.
samuel johnson— Samuel Johnson, London, line 116.
And now without redemption all mankind Must have been lost, adjudged to death and hell By doom severe.
john milton— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book III, line 222.
What the hell is this?
— Who: Carl Finch
— Notes: Finch, Gotham's District Attorney, is assassinated after saying this because he discovers a machine that is part of the League of Shadows plan to destroy Gotham.
What the hell? What the hell is that?
— Who: George
— Source: The X-Files episode "Patience"
— Note: Character says this upon seeing a bat-like creature in the rafters of his front porch, which promptly kills him.
The philosopher is Nature’s pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw— Man and Superman (1903), Act III, line 509. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 596-97.
Worse? How could things get any worse? Take a look around here, Ellen. We're at the threshold of hell!
Clark Griswold— National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), played by Chevy Chase
hell is a city much like London A populous and smoky city.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1819 'Peter Bell theThird'pt.3, stanza1.
For God's sake, sit down. You look like a Calvinist rector telling his flock about hell.
paul bowles— p. 231 (Let It Come Down (1952))
Retreat hell! We're just attacking in another direction.
— Said during the Korean War, December 1950, U.S. Marine Corps History Division website.
Time flies, Death urges, knells call, Heaven invites, hell threatens.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night II, line 291.
'Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out contagion to this world.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act III, scene 2, line 404.
Oh, threats of hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain: This life flies. One thing is certain and the rest is lies; the flower that once has blown forever dies.
— Omar Khayyam, in The Rubaiyat (1120).
Allah's Messenger (may peace be upon him) said: A woman was punished because she had kept a cat tied until it died, and (as a punishment of this offence) she was thrown into hell. She had not provided it with food or drink, and had not freed her so that she could eat the insects of the earth.
— Narrated in Saheeh Muslim, Book 026, Number 5570 [3]
Oh people, the Messenger of God said: Whoever sees an aggressive tyrant that legalizes the forbiddens of God, breeches divine laws, opposes the tradition of the Prophet, oppresses the worshippers of God, and does not concede his opposition to God in word or in deed, surely Allah will place that tyrant (in the hell) where he deserves.
— Khawarazmi, Maqtal al-Husayn, vol.1, p.234
