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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

“'What is hell?' I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” - 1880

“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” - 1942

“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” - 1847

“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

“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” - 2005

“Maybe you go to hell for the things you don’t do. The things you don’t finish.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Lullaby” - 2002

“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” - 1667

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