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Carl Sandburg

Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.

George Carlin

I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 262.

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 254.

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 261.

Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Sylvia Plath

Here at lastWe shall be free;the Almighty hath not builtHere for his envy, will not drive us hence:Here we may reign secure, and in my choiceTo reign is worth ambition though in Hell:Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Isaac Asimov

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Matrix, The

Neo Mr. Wizard. Get me the hell out of here.

Unknown

Live like you can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell.

Henry Louis Mencken

Every man is his own hell.

Ayn Rand

When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is.

A. L. Prusick

It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell.

Japanese Proverb

You don't have to die heaven and hell are in this world too.

Thomas A. Edison

Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas Dekker

O, what a heaven is love, O, what a hell

Ben Stein

Hell is paved with good intentions.

Marilyn Monroe

Ever notice that 'what the hell' is always the right decision

Robert Frost

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

William M. Holden

Hell is paved with good Samaritans.

Georges Bernanos

Hell, Madame, is to love no longer.

Back to the Future

Dr. Emmett Brown The appropriate question is WHEN the hell are they.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

Humphrey Bogart

The only reason to have money is to tell any SOB in the world to go to hell.

Thomas Alva Edison

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

Jack Cleary

I'm not afraid of death; but dying scares the hell out of me.

SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace.

Mark Twain

I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

Charles Barkley

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

Harry Morris Warner

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk

Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I'm very curious to know what the hell they're saying on the phone, but I'd be more worried if they weren't talking.

Donald Robert Perry Marquis

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 42.

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

Samuel Johnson

The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.

George Herbert

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 719.

Hell Grew darker at their frown.

Virgil

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way.

John Lancaster Spalding

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

William James

With mere good intentions, hell is proverbially paved.

Pete Rose

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Clarence Darrow

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

George Bernard Shaw

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Alfred Nobel

For my part, I wish all guns with their belongings and everything could be sent to hell, which is the proper place for their exhibition and use.

Barnaby C. Keeney

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

George Bernard Shaw

A lifetime of happiness No man alive could bear it it would be hell on earth.

MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 449.

Nor jealousy Was understood, the injur'd lover's hell.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 20.

In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell.

Ronnie Shakes

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do

Buddha

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand

Black as the devil, Hot as hell, Pure as an angel, Sweet as love.

Ellen DeGeneres

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix...

The fundies keep telling me I'm going to Hell and they're going to Heaven. If they aren't there, it won't be Hell, so I guess we're all going to the same place!

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

The mind is its own place and in itself can make a heaven of Hell and a hell of Heaven

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

"If it sent all to hell, the hell with it." - Roland

This isn't hell, but I can see it from here.

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

Hell, if you understood everything I said, you'd be me!

Which is worse: Hell or nothing?

Each of us bears his own Hell.

War is hell, and I mean to make it so.

If This Is Hell - Where Are the Lawyers???

Hell is other people.

Man have to have friends even in hell.

RECOVER.COM: a little slice of hell

Living hell is the best revenge.

Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way!

I'd tell you to go to Hell, but I work there and I don't want to have to see you everyday

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

"What the hell are you getting so upset about?

'We the *purple*?' What the hell was that? -- Father

'It was hell,' recalls former child

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.

To drift is to be in hell; to be in heaven is to steer.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

...adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

How do you get holy water?... Boil the hell out of it!

Better reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip.

Pride the first peer and president of hell.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

Hell hath no pizza (probably no Thai restaurants, either)

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.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

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.