The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell. — Karl Popper
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Sayings
There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell. — Edgar Allan Poe
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven. — Friedrich Nietzsche
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell. — Oscar Wilde
Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page. — Thomas Ligotti
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam
What is next to ecstasy?
Pain.
What is next to pain?
Nothingness.
What is next to nothingness?
Hell. — Umera Ahmed
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
Short Hell On Earth Quotes
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. — Li Bai
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. — Li Po
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits
If I go to hell, then heavens to blame — Hopsin
We're in this world to bring heaven down to earth. — Bo Sanchez
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forwad for the trip.
Heaven And Hell On Earth Quotes
If we want to be known in heaven and feared in hell we must be willing to lose our reputation here on earth. — Loren Cunningham
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven. — Chuck Palahniuk
If we insist on keeping Hell (or even Earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell. — C. S. Lewis
If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.
I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself. — C. S. Lewis
Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. — Alan Borovoy
Always behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like hell underwater.
Earth is a in-between world touched by both Heaven and Hell. Earth leads directly into Heaven or directly into Hell, affording a choice between the two. The best of life on Earth is a glimpse of Heaven; the worst of life is a glimpse of Hell. — Randy Alcorn
There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell! — Patricia Sun
God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it. — Pope Paul III
And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
And in some gloomy barrow lie
Folded like a frozen fly. — William Butler Yeats
In Hell Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth. — Al Capone
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?" — Lewis Grizzard
I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles — Niccolo Machiavelli
Be still, and the earth will speak to you.
Don't search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell. — Shams Tabrizi
We're all in the same game, just different levels. Dealing with the same hell, just different devils. — Jadakiss
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. — Winston Churchill
When Life Is Hell Quotes
When the end is near, we suddenly start thinking, What the hell am I doing? Why did I wait this long? Until then, most of us go through life as if we had all the time in the world. — Bill Perkins
When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching - they are your family. — Jim Butcher
Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. — Ernest Hemingway
Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.
Life is a blast when you know what you're doin',
Best to know what you're doin' 'fore your life get ruined.
Life is a thrill when your skill is developed,
If you ain't got a skill or trade, then shut the hell up. — Del tha Funkee Homosapien
If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well. — Joyce Grenfell
Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap. — Hermann Hesse
Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do. — Paulo Coelho
I've been in love and it doesn't last. And when it's over, it's hell for a while. And then one discovers that life goes on. Eventually, one falls in love again. This pattern repeats itself until one is too jaded to believe in it anymore, or too old for all the upheaval. — Laura Lee
Wrath to come implies both the futurity and perpetuity of this wrath.... Yea, it is not only certainly future, but when it comes it will be abiding wrath, or wrath still coming. When millions of years and ages are past and gone, this will still be wrath to come. Ever coming as a river ever flowing. — John Flavel
The lesson is, the rewards in life don't always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going. — Bear Grylls
Hellish Quotes
Birds... scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth. They know the truth. Screaming bloody murder all over the world in our ears, but sadly we don't speak bird. — Kurt Cobain
The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files. — Carl von Ossietzky
It's a diabolical business. I can't imagine how hellish it must be to be hounded like Amy Winehouse and people like that. I have a little peripheral place on the outskirts of celebrity, when I go to premieres and that sort of stuff, which is as close as I want to get. — Jeff Beck
The earth has music for those who listen.
Last Exit to Brooklyn should explode like a rusty hellish bombshell over America and still be eagerly read in a hundred years. — Allen Ginsberg
What was Dionysus going to go? Send him back to his hellish isolation? He’d been there, done that, and had the Ozzy T-shirt to prove it.’ (Styxx) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Take nothing for granted. Not one blessed, cool mountain day or one hellish, desert day or one sweaty, stinky, hiking companion. It is all a gift. — Cindy Ross
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe. — Nicholas Breton
My middle school experience was pretty hellish. There was a lot of negativity, a lot of bullying and a lot of insecurity. It was the reason I ended up going to my arts high school because I was pretty bullied. — Zoey Deutch
It's Aslan, the lion from The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe. It's a symbol of my hellish childhood. I struggled through my oppressive teenage years and when I turned 18 I escaped. Like Aslan I was finally free. — Christina Ricci
I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school. — Libba Bray
Heaven Or Hell Quotes
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth. — John Wesley
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell. — Buddha
All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. — Edgar Cayce
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on Earth.
Because with every action, comment, conversation, we have the choice to invite Heaven or Hell to Earth. — Rob Bell
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse. — Isaac Asimov
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds. — Anne Nicol Gaylor
Ever loved someone so much, you would do anything for them? Yeah, well, make that someone yourself and do whatever the hell you want.
Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a place where there's no shooting, I wouldn't mind a few years of peace and quiet. — Bertolt Brecht
An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents. — Alec Guinness
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. — Thomas A. Edison
Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth. — Edwin Louis Cole
Hell And Back Quotes
Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back. — Robin Olds
Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together. — Assata Shakur
I have been to hell and back, and let me tell you, it was wonderful. — Louise Bourgeois
When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people? — Frank Borman
When you pull on that jersey, you represent yourself and your teammates, and the name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. Get that through your head! — Herb Brooks
Reality is neutral. Our reactions reflect back and create our world. Judge, and feel separate and lonely. Anger, and lose peace of mind. Cling, and live in anxiety. Fantasize, and miss the present. Desire, and suffer until you have it. Heaven and hell are right here, right now. — Naval Ravikant
The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you
must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers. — T. D. Jakes
I claim we got a hell of a beating. We got run out of Burma and it is as humiliating as hell. I think we ought to find out what caused it, go back and retake it. — Joseph Stilwell
The spirits are coming back to tear your damned system of sexual slavery into tatters and consign its blackened remnants to the depth of everlasting hell. — Victoria Woodhull
You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT! — Tony Burton
Life Is Hell Quotes
Hell is not a place you go if you're not a Christian, it's the failure of your life's greatest ambition. — Immortal Technique
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute. — T. D. Jakes
Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, -
O love, there is no other life - but here. — Sayings
Right, wrong, good, bad, heaven, hell. I think that is the theme of my life. I think you have to know both in order to honestly choose one. So I'm familiar with both sides of the fence. — DMX
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias. — William Allen White
My life closed twice before its close;
It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
And all we need of hell. — Emily Dickinson
As long as we don't die, this is gonna be one hell of a story. — John Green
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. — Fernando Sabino
Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good, but if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell. — Clint Murchison, Jr.
Revenge is for the weak so I have settled my vendettas with all of the kids who made my early life a living hell. — Donald Glover
Hell Fire Quotes
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. — William Tecumseh Sherman
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. — Edmund Burke
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all. — Saint John Chrysostom
When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city. — Charles Grandison Finney
Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. — William Booth
We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell. — Karl Popper
It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery. — Adrian Rogers
If we had more hell fire preaching in the pulpit then we would have less hell bound people in the pew. — Leonard Ravenhill
I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again. — Charles Bukowski
We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars? — Jacque Fresco
I'm not into religion, but I have a good grasp on my spirituality. I just believe that I'm not the greatest power on this earth. I didnt create myself, because I would have done a hell of a better job. — Layne Staley
For even in hell, I still have faith, To one day be free with my father at the gates, But make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takes, To be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate, I stand on my pivot, my life you could not live it For the things that I've seen have been too damn explicit. — Kid Cudi
Anything that God wants you to have, there's no devil in hell and no person on earth that can keep you from having it if you just won't quit and give up. — Joyce Meyer
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods. — Peter A. Levine
We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin. — Tupac Shakur
When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you. — Leon Brown
Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell. — LeCrae
I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go. — Neil Gaiman
If I asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable. Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. — Robin Williams
God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell. — Leon Brown
Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell. — Leonard Ravenhill
(Canada) - the most parochial nationette on earth ... I have been living in this sanctimonious icebox ... painting portraits of the opulent Methodists of Toronto. Methodism and money in this city have produced a sort of hell of dullness. — Wyndham Lewis
No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit — Oswald Chambers
It's a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return. — Charlie Munger
I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth. — Mike Dirnt
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. — George Bernard Shaw
Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong. — Jimmy Webb
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. — Daniel Morgan
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell. — Thomas Brooks
Bury you with Satan, to hell then I bury ya. I'm like Lucifer the unforgiven, cast out of heaven, I much rather rule in hell than be a servant. A hell on earth survivor means you better be a earner. — Necro
There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you. — Joyce Meyer
God hides the fires of hell within paradise. — Paulo Coelho
Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both. — Malcolm Lowry
We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity — Nikos Kazantzakis
The idea of heaven is Christianity's way of creating a hell on earth. — Marilyn Manson
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas. — John Adams
Nay, had I pow'r, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. — William Shakespeare
The report [by a UN commission on Darfur] demonstrates beyond all doubt that the last two years have been little short of hell on earth for our fellow human beings in Darfur. — Kofi Annan
There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth. — C. S. Lewis
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