Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey

← Back to quotes

Poem

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Philip James Bailey

1839

★ 3.6

Other tags relating to this quote

Topic

Medium

Time

Person

Provenance

Current citation

Bailey, Philip John. Festus, edited by Mischa Willett. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Original citation

Bailey, Philip John. Festus. London: William Pickering, 1839.

Related quotes

Other quotes that share a subject, a time, or a voice with this one.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

931 BC

Another quote aboutTopic·Oblivion

No man can live faced with Death, knowing everything's nothingness.

Antonius Block

The Seventh Seal · 1957

Another quote aboutTopic·Oblivion

Imagine there's no heaven, It's easy if you try, No hell below us, Above us only sky.

John Lennon

Imagine · 1971

Another quote aboutTopic·Hell

Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.

Dante Alighieri

Inferno · 1321

Another quote aboutTopic·Hell

America, thou half-brother of the world; With something good and bad of every land.

Philip James Bailey

1845

Another quote byPerson·Philip James Bailey

Other media

Works in other forms that share a subject with this one.

Other media onSubject·Hell

Book · 1321

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Artwork · 1620

The Fall of the Damned

Peter Paul Rubens

Book · 1321

Inferno

Dante Alighieri