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After Hatuey, a fifteenth-century Indian insurrectionist, had been fixed to the stake, his Spanish c...

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

I’m Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber w...

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Perhaps hell is like that; a discordant confusion of anxious souls. Some argued, some slept, some sh...

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God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed...

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Leslie StephenAn Agnostic's Apology and Other Essays

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish,...

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Unjust. How many times I've used that word, scolded myself with it. All I mean by it now is that I d...

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It was hell to be so tired, and still care.

Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell.

I don't have to worry about Madame Ouche! she'll still be robbing me blind when she's dead!...having...

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Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.

No one was meant to see hell before they got there. No one should have to live with the devil. So ma...

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Adam, on the other end of the boat, looked extremely unimpressed with Ronan’s lack of heat tolerance...

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Maggie StiefvaterThe Dream Thieves

Now we come to forgiveness. Don't worry about forgiving me right now. There are more important thing...

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You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.

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Margaret AtwoodThe Handmaid's Tale

Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.

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

We may not pay Satan reverence for that would be indiscreet but we can at least respect his talent...

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

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I am much afraid that the universities will prove to be the great gates of hell, unless they diligen...

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You are mine, and Heaven itself cannot rescue you from my power.

What?' He cried, darting at him a look of fury: 'Dare you still implore the Eternal's mercy? Would y...

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When Jesus says he will keep you safe, he means it. Hell will have to get through him to get to you.

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Max LucadoA Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Hell is something you carry with you.

You say I have no power? Perhaps you speak truly... But — you say that dreams have no power here? Te...

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Neil GaimanPreludes & Nocturnes

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And n...

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Neil GaimanSeason of Mists

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

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Neil GaimanSeason of Mists

They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only on...

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Why do they blame me for all their little failings? They use my name as if I spent my entire days si...

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I think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.

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Neil GaimanSeason of Mists

Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.

In order to mount to heaven, you used the Inferno to give you momentum. "The further down you gain y...

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The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.

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Nikos KazantzakisThe Last Temptation of Christ

I'm not interested in absolute moral judgments. Just think of what it means to be a good man or a ba...

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Norman MailerOn God: An Uncommon Conversation

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

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who kno...

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Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Par

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould e...

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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiratio...

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It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. An...

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They say that in the second before our death, each of us understands the real reason for our existen...

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God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

God hides the fires of hell within paradise.

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depth...

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I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon

You don't have to believe in Hell. All you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in ...

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I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standin...

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Primo LeviIf This Is a Man / The Truce

Once there was and once there was not a devout, God-fearing man who lived his entire life according ...

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

Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear ...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

What if you had once seen hell open, and all the damned there in their easeless torments, and had he...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Let this hell be our heaven.

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Richard MathesonWhat Dreams May Come

You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

The devil's name is Dullness.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

In one sense, (Duchamp's) “The Large Glass” is a glimpse into Hell; a peculiarly modernist Hell of r...

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I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter Aug...

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It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have the...

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He liked to make his hearers jump, now and then, and he said that our gravel pit was much the same s...

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Robertson DaviesFifth Business

In later life I have been sometimes praised, sometimes mocked, for my way of pointing out the mythic...

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I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

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Rudyard KiplingThe Light That Failed

She has vivid pictures of Hell. It is as hot as Rajputana in June and everyone is made to learn seve...

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Salman RushdieMidnight's Children

An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God h...

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Hell is paved with good intentions.

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Samuel JohnsonThe Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D. Vol 2

Some people need Hell. If you’re the type of guy who sees a hooker in an alleyway and instinctively ...

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Sarah SilvermanThe Bedwetter: Stories of Courage

That was their way, their heathenish hope; deep in their hearts they remembered hell.

Forget the threat of Hell's infernal flames. The true torture would condemn a man to wait and wait a...

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Ye know, doan't ye, what it feels like when ye burn yer hand in takin' a cake out of the oven or wi'...

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There’s an idea that hell is other people. My idea is that it might be repetition.

He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could apprecia...

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Zitner said hell would freeze over before something like that happened. Harold had a brief image of ...

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That one smooth black eye stared, and reflected in it I fancied I could see the cyclopeon city, and ...

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Frightened people live in their own special hell.

One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot ...

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May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest.

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Stephen KingWolves of the Calla

Maybe I'm in Hell. That's okay, I'm not scared of Hell - it's just Heaven for bad people.

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...

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I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...

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It costs a man just as much or even more to go to hell than to come to heaven. Narrow, exceedingly n...

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What is hell? Hell is oneself. Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is n...

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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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