History Quotes / Hell

-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}''

-->-- '''Copperhead'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', "Kid Stuff"

-->--To hell with you. [[CrapsackWorld But then you're there, aren't you]]?
-'''''[[AIIsACrapshoot AM]]''''', ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

[[AC:Film]]

->''"Once upon a time, there was a place that wasn't a place. It had many names: Avernus, Gehenna, Tartarus, Hades, Abaddon, Sheol... it was an inferno of pain and flame and ice, where every nightmare had come true long since. We'll call it Hell."''
-->-- ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' by '''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

->What is hell? There are place in the universe made of red rock and flame. Peopled by horned goats and fanged serpents. Built for the torment of souls. But these places are only places. Hell is not a place. Hell is the absence of God. Not atheism. A thing cannot be absent if it was never there. To be truly absent, God must have once been present. God must have a face, to turn it away from you. [...] What is God's anger? God's face turning away. Leaving us alone with what we have done.

->What is hell? There are place in the universe made of red rock and flame. Peopled by horned goats and fanged serpents. Built for the torment of souls. But these places are only places. Hell is not a place. Hell is the absence of God. Not atheism. A thing cannot be absent if it was never their. To be truly absent, God must have once been present. God must have a face, to turn it away from you. [...] What is God's anger? God's face turning away. Leaving us alone with what we have done.

! Fiction

-> Hell is very real. But no humans ever go there. Only demons go there. So imagine that, no matter what you do in life, you cannot go to Hell. Puts a whole different spin on things, doesn't it?
-->-- '''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'''

-> '''Black Mage''': Wait, If ''I'' did evil and you guys ''are'' evil, shouldn't you be showering me with rewards and concubines etc.?
-> '''Demon Lord''': This is hell. We are big on irony here.
-->-- '''Webcomic/{{Eight Bit Theater}}'''

->Where do bad folks go when they die? \\
they don't go to heaven where the angels fly\\
go to a lake of fire and fry\\
see 'em again, till the fourth of July.
-->--'''Meat Puppets''', "Lake of Fire"

-->--'''No Exit''' by '''Jean-Paul Sartre'''

->In the afterlife\\
You could be headed for the serious strife\\
Now you make the scene all day\\
But tommorrow there'll be Hell to pay
-->--'''Squirrel Nut Zippers''', "Hell"

->'''Heaven''': Dying wish.
->'''Hell''': Dead certainty.
-->-- '''Thorax''', ''Nine Chickweed Lane''

->[[{{Understatement}} Hell is not a very nice place.]]
-->--'''Father Maxi''', ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''

->''Where do bad folks go when they die? \\
they don't go to heaven where the angels fly\\
go to a lake of fire and fry\\
see 'em again, till the fourth of July.''
-->--'''[[strike:[[CoveredUp Nirvana]] ]] Meat Puppets''', "Lake of Fire"

->''"Once upon a time, there was a place that wasn't a place. It had many names: Avernus, Gehenna, Tartarus, Hades, Abaddon, Sheol... it was an inferno of pain and flame and ice, where every nightmare had come true long since. We'll call it Hell."''
-->--'''Creator/NeilGaiman'''

->''You're not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't end up here."
-->--'''[=GLaDOS=]''', ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''

-->--'''Creator/PercyByssheShelley'''

-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis'', ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters''

->''What is Hell, but the total absence of Hope? The substance, the tactile proof of despair?''
-->-- '''Ken''', ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''

->[[Creator/JeanPaulSartre Sartre]] says that Hell is other people. Wise words, but I think they capture a state of mind rather than a universal truth. I admit, other people can make life a living hell. But they can also be [[TrueCompanions your partners in paradise.]] For me, Hell is nothingness. A place without friends, without music, without words to stimulate the imagination, or beauty to arouse the senses.
-->--''Comicbook/{{Blacksad}}: A Silent Hell''

->Setting coordinates - just above the chasm of pain, which holds the din of infinite grief - just when you see a fire overcome a bleak hemisphere of night - just when the notes of agony in sad crescendo reach your ear - you are there, where light grows mute. What is Hell? Now you know. It is being out of the sight of the [[BigGood Immaculate]] [[DeusEstMachina Machine]], beyond the [[TheLifeStream breath of her anima]].\\
Fie! Fie! No anima! Entropy eats all. The infinity Ebola. We shiver. Our wings dissolve. Oh, let us not linger, sweetling. Let us fly. Let us fly, for we must!\\
See the engines and cogs. It is [[LostTechnology technology older than stars]]. Can you read the writing in the scars? Now you know the next truth - [[InfernalParadise Hell was once wondrous]]. A great civilization palpitated here. What went wrong?
-->--'''The Buzzing''', ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld''

->There are Nether Realms for each major religion, and for each major aspect of that religion. Some hells abound with excruciations too complex to describe, while others recall the simple torments of [[ColdBloodedTorture flaying, boiling and tearing limb from limb]]. The minds of Inquisitors must have flown to such Realms during the darkest ages past - or perhaps those same minds fashioned these same instruments of torture. One hell simply presented the damned with a [[WhiteVoidRoom blank and empty room]] in which to spend eternity. I have even heard of a Nether Realm that resembles an endless nightclub, only here the night never ends and the doors never open. [[IronicHell Those who dance do so forever, and those who drink thirst for eternity]]. Some Nether Realms are abandoned, forgotten spiritual reminders of lost religions. Others are all too active.
-->--''TabletopGame/MageTheAscension - The Book Of Worlds''

-->--''The Naughtiest Cherub'', by Kevin Hearne

->'''Trevor''': What the hell is that?!\\
'''Saint-Germain''': Well, that is very probably ''actually'' Hell!
-->-- ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'', "Abandon All Hope"

-->--''Videogame/{{Hades}}''

->"What is hell? There are place in the universe made of red rock and flame. Peopled by horned goats and fanged serpents. Built for the torment of souls. But these places are only places. Hell is not a place. Hell is the absence of God. Not atheism. A thing cannot be absent if it was never their. To be truly absent, God must have once been present. God must have a face, to turn it away from you. [...] What is God's anger? God's face turning away. Leaving us alone with what we have done.
-->--''ComicBook/{{Immortal Hulk}}''

! Non Fiction

->I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

->According to Christianity, eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, believe or die. Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

->I believe that you’re born with eternal sin, and that mankind is Hell. You don’t have to die to go to Hell. There is no redemption in Christ. The only redemption you have is in realizing that you’re alone in the universe, and to take command of your own life.

->Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist's oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much

->Written over the gate here are the words '''Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.''' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
-->-- '''George Bernard Shaw'''

->An idea, which has terrified millions, claims that some of us will go to a place called Hell, where we will suffer eternal torture. This does not scare me because, when I try to imagine a Mind behind this universe, I cannot conceive that Mind, usually called 'God,' as totally mad. I mean, guys, compare that 'God' with the worst monsters you can think of—Adolph Hitler, Joe Stalin, that sort of guy. None of them ever inflicted more than finite pain on their victims. Even de Sade, in his sado-masochistic fantasy novels, never devised an unlimited torture. The idea that the Mind of Creation (if such exists) wants to torture some of its critters for endless infinities of infinities seems too absurd to take seriously. Such a deranged Mind could not create a mud hut, much less the exquisitely mathematical universe around us.

->It's a strange world. Some people get rich and others eat shit and die. Who knows? If there is in fact, a heaven and a hell, all we know for sure is that hell will be a viciously overcrowded version of Phoenix—a clean well lighted place full of sunshine and bromides and fast cars where almost everybody seems vaguely happy, except those who know in their hearts what is missing . . . And being driven slowly and quietly into the kind of terminal craziness that comes with finally understanding that the one thing you want is not there. Missing. Back-ordered. No tengo. Vaya con dios. Grow up! Small is better. Take what you can get . . .
-->-- '''Hunter S. Thompson'''

->Religion has actually 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 special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! ...But ''he loves you!''
-->-- '''George Carlin'''

->''Hell is where no one has anything in common with anybody else except the fact that they all hate one another and cannot get away from one another and from themselves.''

->I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

->''Hell is God's great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human personality.''

->One can conceive of Heaven having a Telephone Directory, but it would have to be gigantic, for it would include the Proper Name and address of every electron in the Universe. But Hell could not have one, for in Hell, as in prison and the army, its inhabitants are identified not by name but by number. They do not ''have'' numbers, they ''are'' numbers.
-->-- '''W. H. Auden''', ''The Dyer's Hand''

->''We must picture hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives with the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.''

-->--''ComicBook/{{The Immortal Hulk}}''

-->--Creator/NeilGaiman

-->--[=GLaDOS=] (VideoGame/{{Portal}})

-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherMarlowe''', ''Literature/DrFaustus''

->'''Mephistopheles''': ''Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.\\
Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of God\\
And tasted the eternal joys of heaven,\\
Am not tormented with ten thousand hells\\
In being deprived of everlasting bliss?''
-->-- '''Creator/ChristopherMarlowe''', ''Literature/DrFaustus''

->According to Christianity, eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, believe or die. 'Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

-->-- W. H. Auden, ''The Dyer's Hand''