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“Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.” William Shakespeare, “The Tempest” - 1623

“My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“Each of us has heaven and hell in him” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold” William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night's Dream” - 1601

“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” - 1601

“But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.” George Bernard Shaw, “Man and Superman” - 1903

“Would I were with him, wheresome'er he is, either in heaven or in hell!” William Shakespeare, “Henry V” - 1600

“I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.” William Shakespeare, “Shakespeare's Sonnets” - 1609

“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” - 1862

“Before me there were no created things, Only eterne, and I eternal last. All hope abandon, ye who enter in!” Dante Alighieri, “Divine Comedy” - 1320

“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“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” - 2000

“Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“Sex is something I really don't understand too hot. You never know where the hell you are.” J. D. Salinger, “The Catcher in the Rye” - 1951

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“Let none admire that riches grow in Hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.” John Milton, “Paradise Lost” - 1667

“I decided as long as I was going to hell, I might as well do it thoroughly.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“Two words would comprehend my future—death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell.” Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights” - 1847

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