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Dante Alighieri3 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, as sand eddies in a whirlpool. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Let us not speak of them, but look, and pass on. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Bertrand Russell1 quote
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. — Bertrand Russell · 1928C.S. Lewis1 quote
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Charles Dickens1 quote
I wear the chain I forged in life. — Charles Dickens · 1843Chris1 quote
Somebody once wrote: "Hell is the impossibility of reason." That's what this place feels like. Hell. — Chris · 1986Homer1 quote
Hades is relentless and unyielding. — Homer · 700 BCJean-Paul Sartre1 quote
Hell is other people. — Jean-Paul Sartre · 1944John Lennon1 quote
Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky. — John Lennon · 1971John Milton1 quote
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667Mark Twain1 quote
The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, “Where is the best place to go to?” He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages—heaven for climate, and hell for society. — Mark Twain · 1901Percy Bysshe Shelley1 quote
Hell is a city much like London—
A populous and a smoky city. — Percy Bysshe Shelley · 1822Philip James Bailey1 quote
Hell is more bearable than nothingness. — Philip James Bailey · 1839T.S. Eliot1 quote
What is hell?
Hell is oneself,
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from
And nothing to escape to. One is always alone. — T.S. Eliot · 1949Winston Churchill1 quote
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. — Winston Churchill · 1950