Hells Quotes
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Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss!
Christopher Marlowe— c.1592 Doctor Faustus (published1604), act1, sc.3.
Love seeketh not itself to please,Nor for itself hath any care,But for another gives its ease,And builds a heaven in hell’s despair.
william blake— The Clod and the Pebble, st. 1
It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition.
charles fort— Ch. 1 (The Book of The Damned (1919))
These hells , and hundreds and thousands of others, are the places in which sinners pay the penalty of their crimes . As numerous as are the offences that men commit, so many are the hells in which they are punished : and all who deviate from the duties imposed upon them by their caste and condition, whether in thought , word , or deed , are sentenced to punishment in the regions of the damned.
— Vishnu Purana, in "The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840] CHAP. VI.
This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one’s spiritual Self (atman).
swami vivekananda— Pearls of Wisdom edited by the Ramakrishna Mission
The mission of the Universalist church has been a double one, first to contravert the one-time prevalent idea of an endless hell . This part of the mission has practically been accomplished. … But the second and more important one awaits fulfillment … a fight which shall continue until the real, actual hells, before our very eyes, are destroyed.
— Henry Clay Ledyard, as quoted in "Not Hell, But Hope: Writings from the Heritage of American Universalism" compiled by Karen E. Dau, New York State Convention of Universalists
