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“Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.” William Shakespeare, The Tempest
“The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way” Virgil, Aeneid
“Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Each of us has heaven and hell in him” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“no, sir. You can go to hell, sir. It's the best I can do for you, sir.” Jack London, The Call of the Wild
“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“The sun like a sneaky keyhole view of hell.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“Let none admire that riches grow in Hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.” John Milton, Paradise Lost
“Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.” William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
“It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.” Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell!” William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream
“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. ” C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Sonnets
“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“When I die, I hope to go to heaven—whatever the hell that is— and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts” C. S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy
“Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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