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The fact was that, as droves of demon kings had noticed, there was a limit to what you could do to a...

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You couldn't get a decent drink in either of them, for a start. And the boredom you got in Heaven wa...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

I don’t reckon it’s allowed, going round setting fire to people,” said Adam. “Otherwise people’d be ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Well, Hell was worse, of course, by definition. But Crowley remembered what Heaven was like, and it ...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

Hell wasn't a major reservoir of evil, any more then Heaven, in Crowley's opinion, was a fountain of...

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Terry PratchettGood Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter

There was a hell for blasphemers. There was a hell for disputers of rightful authority. There were a...

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... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his ...

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The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bli...

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The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

The devil gets up to the belfry by the vicar's skirts.

Hell is truth seen too late.

Sophia," she said, "this is really not something to argue about. You can see for yourself that life ...

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Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person’s nature; only hypocrites would hold a m...

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I don't want to use the term 'plus-size,' because, to me, what the hell is that? It just doesn't hav...

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In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to ea...

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Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one ...

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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Each of us bears his own Hell.

What's optimism? said Cacambo. Alas, said Candide, it is a mania for saying things are well when one...

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Facilis descensus Averno:Noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis;Sed revocare gradium superasque ev...

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The gates of hell are open night and day;Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:But to return, and ...

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

I tried to believe in God, but I confess to you that God meant nothing in my life, and that in my se...

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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.

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W. H. AudenA Certain World: A Commonplace Book

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and...

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I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look...

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The reason Milton wrote in fetters when he wrote of Angels & God, and at liberty when of Devils & He...

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William BlakeThe Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Hold back the edges of your gown, Ladies, we are going through hell.

Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a c...

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But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter t...

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There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in ...

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

...'unless you convert to Orthodoxy, you too will follow your Pope down that valley, through the sco...

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William Dalrymple (historian)From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East

Listen: it’s got to be all honeymoon, always. Either heaven, or hell: no comfortable safe peaceful p...

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His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme...

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The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement w...

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I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around t...

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How long does it take man to realize that he cannot want what he wants? You have to live in hell to ...

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

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

Despair was a heavy blackness that let no light in or out. It was a hell beyond expression.

The special quality of hell is to see everything clearly down to the last detail.

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Yukio MishimaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion

It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one'...

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Yukio MishimaThe Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Who made the world I cannot tell;'Tis made, and here I am in hell.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

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

Wwhat the hell? Weve all got to die sometime!

War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.

Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place?Etrigan: Think you God built thi...

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Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

A hell, from which one can be saved by a quibble that would carry no weight with a police magistrate...

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Aldous HuxleyThe Devils of Loudun

Pastor Russell lived in nearby Pittsburgh and said that there was no hell. This was terrible for we ...

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Ammon HennacyThe Autobiography of a Catholic Anarchist

It’s just amazing how long this country has been going to hell without ever having got there.

I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything should just keep going on t...

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Could one that's damned stand in high Heaven, even thereHe'd feel within himself all Hell and Hell's...

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Angelus SilesiusSelections from The Cherubinic Wanderer

You have a perfect right to consign us all to hell, rector, but you must allow us the choice of how ...

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Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven.

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Anne RiceMemnoch the Devil

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...

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I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in th...

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Anne RiceThe Vampire Lestat

I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I did not know about God an...

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Annie DillardPilgrim at Tinker Creek

I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this-...

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Antonin ArtaudLettres à Génica Athanasiou

When it is recalled that until the Christian era the underworld was never regardded as a hostile are...

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For whence did Dante get the material for his hell, if not from this actual world of ours? And indee...

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Arthur SchopenhauerThe World as Will and Representation

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

Many might go to heaven with half the labor they go to hell.

[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they inven...

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The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's th...

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It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the W...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches b...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Not one word about hell in the Bible would ever make you want to go there.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clear...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord ...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

Some teach “universalism”—that eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never sen...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

A seminary professor I once knew told his students, “Never preach about hell without tears in your e...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a he...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the W...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches b...

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Billy GrahamBilly Graham in Quotes