The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.
When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.