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Quotations about hell

Bertrand RussellI do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

 - Bertrand Russell

Tags:   eternity  hell  humane  punishment  

George CarlinReligion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.

 - George Carlin

Tags:   atheism  God  hell  religion  

Robert FrostI hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

 - Robert Frost

Tags:   hell  rights  

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.

 - William Congreve

Tags:   fury  heaven  hell  women  

Fyodor DostoevskyWhat is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

 - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tags:   hell  love  suffering  

Carl SaganWe've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious.

 - Carl Sagan

Tags:   heaven  hell  kings  politics  

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 fashioning our characters in the wrong way.

 - William James

Tags:   character  hell  

Carrie FisherI heard someone say once that many of us only seem able to find heaven by backing away from hell. And while the place that I've arrived at in my life may not precisely be everyone's idea of heavenly, I could swear sometimes -- I hear angels sing.

 - Carrie Fisher

Tags:   heaven  hell  hope