300 Quotes on Hell

• I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.

  Author: Elinor Wylie

• I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

  Author: Natalie Wood

• Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

  Author: Mary Wollstonecraft

• To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.

  Author: Kip Winger

• A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

  Author: Tennessee Williams

• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  Author: Otis Williams

• Hell is indefinite.

  Author: Charles Williams

• The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not prevail against it. It is about all that, looking back on the history of the Church, one can feel that they have not done.

  Author: Charles Williams

• It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  Author: William White

• If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

  Author: Wayne White

• If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.

  Author: Wil Wheaton

• The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction.

  Author: Dominic West

• Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

  Author: H. Wells

• I think 'Bat Out Of Hell' will probably last forever.

  Author: Max Weinberg

• We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

  Author: Simone Weil

• When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

  Author: John Webster

• Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell.

  Author: Beatrice Webb

• If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'

  Author: John Wayne

• Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.

  Author: Anthony Wayne

• I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

  Author: Charlie Watts

• Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

  Author: Muddy Waters

• There's no hypocrisy in Hell's Kitchen.

  Author: Ethel Waters

• I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

  Author: Julie Walters

• Hell, I'm an old man. I'm 70 years old. I'm supposed to be sitting on a rocking chair watching the sunset.

  Author: M. Walsh

• Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons.

  Author: John Walsh

• The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

  Author: Edmund Waller

• Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

  Author: Voltaire

• It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

  Author: Virgil

• Each of us bears his own Hell.

  Author: Virgil

• The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

  Author: Tom Verlaine

• Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  Author: Jesse Ventura

• I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

  Author: Robert Vaughn

• One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks.

  Author: Mo Udall

• I am itching like hell to play America because I know that if I did the show over there, they would love it.

  Author: Bonnie Tyler

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

  Author: Mark Twain

• All right, then, I'll go to hell.

  Author: Mark Twain

• Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

  Author: Mark Twain

• It sure is hell to be president.

  Author: Harry Truman

• To hell with them. When history is written they will be the sons of bitches - not I.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

  Author: Harry Truman

• I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.

  Author: Harry Truman

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

  Author: Harry Truman

• Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

  Author: Alfred Tennyson

• Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

  Author: Charles Talleyrand

• The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not.

  Author: Herbert Swope

• In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• That all who have ever been born men from the beginning of creation, and are deceased, are either in heaven or in hell, follows from those things which have been said and shown in the preceding article, namely, that Heaven and Hell are from the human race.

  Author: Emanuel Swedenborg

• If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.

  Author: Jimmy Swaggart

• Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

  Author: Billy Sunday

• I get a fine warm feeling when I'm doing well, but that pleasure is pretty much negated by the pain of getting started each day. Let's face it, writing is hell.

  Author: William Styron

• Let's face it, writing is hell.

  Author: William Styron

• Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.

  Author: Howard Stringer

• My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.

  Author: J. Straczynski

• 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.

  Author: Caskie Stinnett

• I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

  Author: John Steinbeck

• When I first became interested in photography, I thought it was the whole cheese. My idea was to have it recognized as one of the fine arts. Today I don't give a hoot in hell about that. The mission of photography is to explain man to man and each man to himself.

  Author: Edward Steichen

• I was raised in a climate where I believed in God because I was afraid of going to hell - and I didn't think that was the right way to fall in love with somebody.

  Author: Scott Stapp

• We need to drive like hell and get to the hills before the winter sets in.

  Author: Steven Squyres

• If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.

  Author: Charles Spurgeon

• Hell, have I been a hell-raiser!

  Author: Dusty Springfield

• When men have money and power they get turned on, sexually. They get horny as hell. Can't imagine why, though.

  Author: Penelope Spheeris

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

  Author: John Spalding

• It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

  Author: Robert Southey

• Salvation cannot come without revelation. Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either; and I will say that no man knows these things without this.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

  Author: Joseph Smith, Jr.

• Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

  Author: Goldwin Smith

• Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.

  Author: William Sherman

• There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

  Author: William Sherman

• If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world, but I am sure we would be getting reports from Hell before breakfast.

  Author: William Sherman

• There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

  Author: William Sherman

• War is hell.

  Author: William Sherman

• I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

  Author: William Sherman

• We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

  Author: Richard Shelby

• Les Pauls work out real well for me because I'll beat the hell out of them and they'll still work. The only trouble with them is finding good ones.

  Author: Tommy Shaw

• Hell is full of musical amateurs.

  Author: George Shaw

• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  Author: George Shaw

• The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

  Author: George Shaw

• Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.

  Author: William Shakespeare

• You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• You know, I'm not gonna take my money with me to heaven or hell, wherever I'm going. So I want to do something good with it even though my means are very limited. I'm no millionaire!

  Author: Gunther Schuller

• They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

  Author: Mike Schmidt

• You read a lot about movies with budgets of $25 to 30 million. Hell, if a studio can piss away that kind of money, why not let 'em piss on me?

  Author: Roy Scheider

• I just had one of those "what the hell are we doing" moments.

  Author: Adam Savage

• Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.

  Author: John Saul

• Hell is other people.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

  Author: Adam Sandler

• 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.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

  Author: Carl Sandburg

• Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ten minutes after seeing it, you're only focused on what you want to eat.

  Author: Eriq Salle

• He's the president of the United States. He's got to work 14 to 16 hours a day, run foreign and domestic policy. If he's got time for mistresses after all that, what the hell difference does it make?

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

  Author: J. Salinger

• Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.

  Author: J. Salinger

• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  Author: Marquis Sade

• I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.

  Author: Larry Sabato

• Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

  Author: George Ryan

• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  Author: George Russell

• The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

  Author: Bertrand Russell

• Remember the Tea Party movement didn't get started in September of 2008 when the bank bailout was passed. It really began on Feb. 19th, 2009 when a television commentator named Rick Santelli stood up and said what the hell are we doing bailing out people who couldn't afford a mortgage by taking money from people like me who are prudent?

  Author: Karl Rove

• The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

  Author: Philip Roth

• I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• I had a hell of a time convincing people I was gay - which was so annoying!

  Author: Portia Rossi

• The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

  Author: Charlotte Ross

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

  Author: Pete Rose

• The greatest competitor was Bob Gibson. He worked so fast out there and he always had the hood up. He always wanted to close his own deal. He never talked to you because he was battling so hard. I sure as hell don't miss batting against him, but I miss him in the game.

  Author: Pete Rose

• I was raised thinking I'd burn in hell for being gay, but I didn't have a choice. It's just who I am.

  Author: Jai Rodriguez

• If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

  Author: Anita Roddick

• I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

  Author: Norman Rockwell

• We march and fight, to death or on to victory. Our might is right, no traitors shall prevail. Our hearts are steeled against the fiery gates of hell. No shot or shell, can still our mighty song.

  Author: George Rockwell

• Generally in the Little League you're up against a good pitcher who throws like hell. What does the coach say? Get a walk. Isn't that beautiful way to learn to hit? For four years you stand up there looking for a walk.

  Author: Robin Roberts

• I learned never to listen to acting teachers because they don't know what the hell they're talking about.

  Author: Tim Robbins

• I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property.'

  Author: Joan Rivers

• I do suspect that this world is hell.

  Author: Francesca Rimini

• I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

  Author: Arthur Rimbaud

• I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

  Author: Rihanna

• Hell hath no fury like a Democrat scorned.

  Author: Jeff Rich

• I think a guy who's had just the right amount of booze can sing the blues a hell of a lot better than a guy who is stone sober.

  Author: Charlie Rich

• I believe in energy like dark energies. I believe that when a family moves into a house where six murders took place, there's going to be some bad juju in that house. But then again what the hell is wrong with you to be moving in that house to begin with?

  Author: Ryan Reynolds

• My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

  Author: Tommy Rettig

• I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

  Author: Pee Reese

• Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.

  Author: Pee Reese

• Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.

  Author: Robert Redford

• It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

  Author: Helen Reddy

• Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?

  Author: Harold Ramis

• Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

  Author: Bonnie Raitt

• I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.

  Author: Kathleen Raine

• At this stage of the game, I am not sure what the hell is going to happen.

  Author: Bobby Rahal

• Hell, covering all with its gloomy vapors, has cast shadows on even the holiest eyes.

  Author: Jean Racine

• Barack Obama is the worst president in history. In my generation, we'll inherit a weakened country, drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place.

  Author: Ben Quayle

• To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  Author: J. Priestley

• The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts.

  Author: Anthony Price

• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Author: Terry Prachett

• You no longer have much in the way of knowing what to do in a big, epic novel about the future, because nobody knows what the hell is going to happen.

  Author: Jerry Pournelle

• Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

  Author: Peter Porter

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  Author: Karl Popper

• It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

  Author: Christopher Plummer

• If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

  Author: Sylvia Plath

• Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.

  Author: Sylvia Plath

• Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• In Paris they have special wheelchairs that go through every doorway. They don't change the doorways, they change the wheelchairs. To hell with the people! If someone weighs a couple more pounds, that's it!

  Author: Itzhak Perlman

• There is no redemption from hell.

  Author: Pope Paul III

• Americans play to win at all times. I wouldn't give a hoot and hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor ever lose a war.

  Author: George Patton

• If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

  Author: John Passos

• Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

  Author: John Passos

• Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.

  Author: Robert Parker

• What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

  Author: Joe Pantoliano

• He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

  Author: Thomas Paine

• I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences.

  Author: Buck Owens

• I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

  Author: Joel Osteen

• Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

  Author: Sharon Osbourne

• There'll be a special place in hell for the tape back-up people.

  Author: Adam Osborne

• Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.

  Author: George Orwell

• The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?

  Author: P. O'Rourke

• It's hot as hell as can be.

  Author: Eugene Ormandy

• We seek him here, we seek him there, Those Frenchies seek him everywhere. Is he in heaven? - Is he in hell? That damned, elusive Pimpernel?

  Author: Baroness Orczy

• As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors - the Soviets and, before them, the British.

  Author: Mohammed Omar

• If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

  Author: Larisa Oleynik

• It's time to replace career politicians with citizen's politicians. It's time to elect people who are going to stand up to the Washington elite and stand up to a White House and Congress hell-bent on ramming socialism down our throat.

  Author: Christine O'Donnell

• I read about this hotel that was great, down in the south of the island, not in a touristy area. I had no particular desire ever to go to Jamaica, but I thought, what the hell? Sounds nice. Let's go!

  Author: Jeremy Northam

• There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I'm not like that I never shoot blanks.

  Author: Richard Nixon

• Unquestionably, it was going to be highly dangerous. Yet I felt it was quite natural to jump at the task. After all, if you don't like action and excitement, you don't go into police work. And, what the hell, I figured, nobody lives forever!

  Author: Eliot Ness

• I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air.

  Author: Carry Nation

• Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

  Author: John Murray

• We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell.

  Author: Arthur Murray

• In my childhood I always felt that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick, and with the threat of punishment in Hell hanging over my head.

  Author: Edvard Munch

• I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

  Author: Edvard Munch

• People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.

  Author: Kary Mullis

• If they tell the police, the police will find out she was driving, and her career will be put into hell.

  Author: Nicholas Mosley

• I have been robbed of three million dollars all told. Everyone today is playing my stuff and I don't even get credit. Kansas City style, Chicago style, New Orleans style hell, they're all Jelly Roll style.

  Author: Jelly Morton

• When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

  Author: Alanis Morissette

• Don't accept rides from strange men - and remember that all men are strange as hell.

  Author: Robin Morgan

• Where you have no religion, you are sure to have no government, for as religion disappears, anarchy takes place and fixes a compleat Hell on earth till religion returns.

  Author: Daniel Morgan

• Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

  Author: George Moore

• When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.

  Author: Rick Moody

• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

  Author: Frederica Montseny

• Hell has been described as a pocket edition of Chicago.

  Author: Ashley Montagu

• I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

  Author: Maria Monk

• There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

  Author: Brian Molko

• People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in.

  Author: Robert Mitchum

• I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they've been through hell on Earth.

  Author: Liza Minnelli

• Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.

  Author: John Milton

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

  Author: John Milton

• I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

  Author: Kate Millett

• What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.

  Author: Kate Millett

• I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

  Author: Glenn Miller

• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Author: Edna Millay

• If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  Author: Thomas Merton

• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

  Author: Gian Menotti

• Every man is his own hell.

  Author: H. Mencken

• 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.

  Author: H. Mencken

• There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

  Author: Herman Melville

• TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

  Author: Christopher Meloni

• If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

  Author: Mignon McLaughlin

• Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

  Author: Norman McLaren

• It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

  Author: Jacqueline McKenzie

• My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

  Author: Brownie McGhee

• We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

  Author: John McGahern

• In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

  Author: Colleen McCullough

• A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

  Author: Kent McCord

• If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

  Author: John McCarthy

• On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

  Author: John McCain

• Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

  Author: Joseph McCabe

• Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

  Author: Francois Mauriac

• Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

  Author: Dave Matthews

• I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'

  Author: Demetri Martin

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

  Author: Don Marquis

• Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

  Author: Christopher Marlowe

• Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. The last six years in the American League were mental hell for me. I was drained of all my desire to play baseball.

  Author: Roger Maris

• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  Author: Imelda Marcos

• Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing.

  Author: Peyton Manning

• The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

  Author: Andre Malraux

• I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

  Author: Malcolm Malcolm X

• My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

  Author: James MacArthur

• I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

  Author: Paul Lynde

• I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

  Author: Martin Luther

• It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

  Author: Bela Lugosi

• If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven.

  Author: Christopher Love

• I remember how being young and black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.

  Author: Audre Lorde

• I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

  Author: Lindsay Lohan

• This organization is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.

  Author: Henry Lodge, Jr.

• Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

  Author: Meat Loaf

• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

  Author: Jerry Lewis

• The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

  Author: C. Lewis

• My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

  Author: Al Lewis

• President Bush has said that he does not need approval from the UN to wage war, and I'm thinking, well, hell, he didn't need the approval of the American voters to become president, either.

  Author: David Letterman

• President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?

  Author: David Letterman

• To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

  Author: Bruce Lee

• Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

  Author: Mary Lease

• Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

  Author: Irving Layton

• Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

  Author: William Law

• I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

  Author: Avril Lavigne

• Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

  Author: Jessica Lange

• Sometimes the odds are against you-the director doesn't know what the hell he's doing, or something falls apart in the production, or you're working with an actor who's just unbearable.

  Author: Jessica Lange

• Mother beat the hell out of us. She'd have wild outbursts.

  Author: Burt Lancaster

• I think any movie star who refuses autographs has a hell of a nerve.

  Author: Alan Ladd

• I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.

  Author: Talib Kweli

• If we remove ourselves from the world, we are pretending that we can follow our own individual enlightenment and let the rest of the world go to hell, so to speak.

  Author: Satish Kumar

• Warhol's images made sense to me, although I knew nothing at the time of his background in commercial art. To be honest, I didn't think about him a hell of a lot.

  Author: Barbara Kruger

• If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.

  Author: Ray Kroc

• Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening.

  Author: John Kricfalusi

• Looking back, I think we were all quite mature, surprisingly responsible. In earlier wars, boys of our age had just gone off to raise hell or enlist or both, but we stayed dutifully at our desks doing tomorrow's homework.

  Author: John Knowles

• I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

  Author: Shirley Knight

• In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my bones. Every time they wanted me to jump further, and further, and further. Hell, they thought my bike had wings.

  Author: Evel Knievel

• I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.

  Author: Calvin Klein

• The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

  Author: Martin King, Jr.

• Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

  Author: Kerry King

• I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

  Author: William Kidd

• If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them.

  Author: Mohammad Khatami

• To hell with facts! We need stories!

  Author: Ken Kesey

• I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

  Author: Nik Kershaw

• I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

  Author: Steve Kerr

• And I liked pluralist Australia. I got a taste for pluralist Australia. I like, I like Australians and I can't believe that they're going to go to hell because they tell a good dirty joke, you know.

  Author: Thomas Keneally

• I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

  Author: Gary Kemp

• 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.

  Author: Barnaby Keeney

• There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

  Author: John Keats

• I can make men follow me to hell.

  Author: Philip Kearny

• When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

  Author: Elia Kazan

• I don't blame it on the Hell's Angels. I blame it on the people who were there.

  Author: Paul Kantner

• Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don't, who will?

  Author: Jon Jovi

• There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

  Author: Ben Jonson

• Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

  Author: Orlando Jones

• I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

  Author: Mother Jones

• I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

  Author: Mother Jones

• Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

  Author: Mother Jones

• I'm not a humanitarian. I'm a hell-raiser.

  Author: Mary Jones

• There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

  Author: Mordecai Johnson

• It's odd that you can get so anesthetized by your own pain or your own problem that you don't quite fully share the hell of someone close to you.

  Author: Lady Johnson

• I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.

  Author: Don Johnson

• My sons are a hell of a lot easier to get through to than my daughter is. She seems to have my number. She can just run through the buttons.

  Author: Don Johnson

• There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

  Author: Daniel Johns

• The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

  Author: Thomas Jarvis

• The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

  Author: William James

• The pain comes from knowing that we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be so ignorant again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again. Losing innocence. Remembering heaven. That was the essence of hell.

  Author: John Jakes

• Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.

  Author: Arne Jacobsen

• One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them.

  Author: Glenda Jackson

• I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

  Author: Chris Isaak

• Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

  Author: Robert Ingersoll

• Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• Maybe this world is another planet's hell.

  Author: Aldous Huxley

• It's just as difficult to live in a self-made hell of privacy as it is to live in a self-made hell of publicity.

  Author: Michael Hutchence

• The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

  Author: Hubert Humphrey

• Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

  Author: David Hume

• Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

  Author: Bobby Hull

• An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

  Author: Victor Hugo

• As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

  Author: Kin Hubbard

• Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

  Author: Elbert Hubbard

• Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

  Author: Thomas Howard

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