History Quotes / SelfInflictedHell

->''"The gods of the Disc have never bothered much about judging the souls of the dead, and so people only go to hell if that's where they believe, in their deepest heart, that they deserve to go. Which they won't do if they don't know about it. This explains why it is so important to shoot missionaries on sight."''
-->-- '''Creator/TerryPratchett''', ''Literature/{{Eric}}''

->''"The doors of Hell are locked on the inside. I do not mean that the ghosts may not wish to come out of Hell, in the vague fashion wherein an [[GreenEyedMonster envious]] man 'wishes' to be happy: but they certainly do not will even the first preliminary stages of that self-abandonment through which alone the soul can reach any good."''
-->-- '''Creator/CSLewis''', ''The Problem of Pain''

->'''Azrael:''' Human, have you ever ''been'' to Hell? I think not. Did you know that Hell was once nothing more than the absence of God? And if you'd ever been in his presence, you'd realise that's punishment enough. But then your kind came along, and made it so. Much. Worse.\\
'''Bethany:''' Humans aren't capable of one-hundredth the evil a shitbag demon like you is. ''(spits in his face)''\\
'''Azrael:''' ''(quietly)'' Evil...is an ABSTRACT! It's a ''HUMAN'' construct! But, true to his irresponsible nature, man won't own up to being its engineer, so he blames his dark deeds on my ilk. But his selfishness is limitless, and it's not enough to shadow his own existence, no, he turned Hell into a suffering pit! Fire, wailing, darkness- the kind of place anyone would do ''anything'' to get out of. And why? Because he lacks the ability to forgive himself. It is beyond your abilities to simply make personal recompense for the sins you commit! No, you choose rather to create a psychodrama and dwell in a foundless belief that ''(mockingly)'' "God could never forgive your grievous offences." So you bring your guilt and your inner decay with you to Hell, where the horrid imaginations of so many gluttons for punishment gave birth to the sickness that has infected the Abyss since the first one of your kind arrived there, begging to be punished. And in doing so, they've transformed the cold and solitude to pain and misery! I've spent EONS privy to the flame, inhaling the decay, hearing the wail of the damned! ''I KNOW! WHAT EFFECT! SUCH HORRORS HAVE!'' '''[[VoiceOfTheLegion ON THE DELICATE PSYCHE OF AN ANGELIC BEING!]]'''....[[PutThemAllOutOfMyMisery I'd rather not exist than go back to that.]]
-->-- ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' (deleted scene)

->'''Faust:''' Where are you damn'd?\\
'''Mephistopheles:''' In hell.\\
'''Faust:''' How comes it then that thou art out of hell?\\
'''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 depriv'd of everlasting bliss?
-->-- ''Dr Faustus'', Scene III, by Christopher Marlowe

->'''[[spoiler:Eugene]]:''' [[MoralEventHorizon I murdered him]]... I murdered my son. [[RealityWarper I-I created this world]], a perfect place to live, everything ordered, everything ritualized, and for a while I can forget what I did, I can live in peace without [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the guilt]] -- and then [[OffTheRails the history stops making sense]] and [[RegularlyScheduledEvil the face comes back!]] The same face comes back to remind me! [...] But don't worry, I-I have a knife. I'll kill it again; I'll save you both!\\
'''The Doctor:''' No, [[spoiler:Eugene]]!\\
'''[[spoiler:Eugene]]:''' I'm the only one who can stop it!\\
'''The Doctor:''' But that's what you always do, [[spoiler:Eugene]], isn't it? The Child ''wants'' you to kill it! It's trying to make you act out your crime again!\\
'''[[HumanoidAbomination The Child]]:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion Are you my father? Are you my murderer?]]\\
'''The Doctor:''' Kill him, and you'll be killing him again and again, ''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever!]]''
-->-- ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho'', "[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]]"

->'''Capaneus''': That which I was in life, I am in death...\\
'''Virgil''': O Capaneus, for your arrogance\\
that is not quenched, you're punished all the more\\
no torture other than your own madness\\
could offer pain enough to match your wrath.
-->-- ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Inferno'' canto 14 (1867 English translation by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

->'''Lucifer:''' I have a story for you, reporter. One I've never told a human soul before. I take ''no'' part in who goes to Hell.\\
'''Reese:''' Then who does?\\
'''Lucifer:''' You humans! You send yourselves, driven down by your own guilt, forcing yourselves to relive your sins over and over. And the best part -- the doors aren't locked. You could leave any time. It says something that no one ever does, doesn't it?
-->-- ''Series/{{Lucifer 2016}}''

-> '''ComicBook/{{Sabretooth}}:''' Wait, he--he [[KarmaHoudini gets a castle]]? I thought if you sold your soul to the Devil, you got punished when you died!\\
'''Marduk Kurios:''' Oh, he's getting punished... hate is Hell. And [[SinisterMinister William Stryker]] can't ever let it go. No matter what riches and glory he acquires, he can never enjoy it. He just wallows here in all-consuming fury... thinking about [[FeelingOppressedByTheirExistence the mutants who have offended him... humiliated him... murdered him...]] it's quite tedious, honestly. You can't have a normal conversation with him. It's always 'And then do you know what the mutants did?' But then, soon enough, he's called back to Earth and the cycle repeats itself. He tortures himself, really. I barely have to lift a finger.

->''Imagine being so obsessed with hatred of trans people that you get frustrated when you hear news stories about women doing bad things because you can't count on the reporters to tell you whether or not she was born with a penis. Damn, it's almost sad. But honestly, it kinda makes me happy that their hatred causes them such turmoil. I'd say "go to Hell" but why bother, she's already built her own Hell.''
-->--'''Spacewyrm''', [[https://fstdt.com/ZFX2DZV374SG6#85206 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]

->''Every single, solitary country on the face of this planet could be completely populated with nothing but identical clones of Hatebaby, and he'd still find grounds to slag them. I mean, they'd be clones of Hatebaby, so they'd probably deserve it, but my point is, the only person he seems to not hate is this one precise version of himself. Everyday life must be an intolerable slog of torment and irritation for him, and I can't think of a more fitting hell. Live your best lives, folks; if not for yourself, then do it knowing that the simple act of existing is something akin to a sandpaper bikini and a lemon-juice waterslide to this asshole."

-->-- ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'', ''Inferno'' 14

-->-- '''Breschau''', to [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] and [[ComicBook/TheSandman Dream]], as to why Breschau refuses to leave Hell despite being freed by Lucifer, in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' #23: "Seasons of Mist: Episode 2"

'''The Doctor:''' Kill him, and you'll be killing him again and again, ''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever!]]''\\

-> '''Faust:''' Where are you damn'd?
-> '''Mephistopheles:''' In hell.
-> '''Faust:''' How comes it then that thou art out of hell?
-> '''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 depriv’d of everlasting bliss?
-->-- "Dr Faustus", Scene III, by Christopher Marlowe

->[[spoiler:'''Eugene:''']] [[MoralEventHorizon I murdered him]]... I murdered my son. [[RealityWarper I-I created this world]], a perfect place to live, everything ordered, everything ritualized, and for a while I can forget what I did, I can live in peace without [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the guilt]] — and then [[OffTheRails the history stops making sense]] and [[RegularlyScheduledEvil the face comes back!]] The same face comes back to remind me! [...] But don't worry, I-I have a knife. I'll kill it again; I'll save you both!
->'''The Doctor:''' No, [[spoiler: Eugene!]]
->[[spoiler:'''Eugene:''']] I'm the only one who can stop it!
->'''The Doctor:''' But that's what you always do, [[spoiler:Eugene]], isn't it? The Child ''wants'' you to kill it! It's trying to make you act out your crime again!
->'''[[HumanoidAbomination The Child]]:''' [[AC:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Are you my father? Are you my murderer?]]]]
->'''The Doctor:''' Kill him, and you'll be killing him again and again, ''[[FateWorseThanDeath forever!]]''
-->-- AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho, ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWho014TheHolyTerror The Holy Terror]]''

-->'''kuyohashi''', on [[EvilReactionary "Feynman and Coulter's Love Child"]], [[https://fstdt.com/W448L7BX.GD77#92238 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]

''Imagine being so obsessed with hatred of trans people that you get frustrated when you hear news stories about women doing bad things because you can't count on the reporters to tell you whether or not she was born with a penis. Damn, it's almost sad. But honestly, it kinda makes me happy that their hatred causes them such turmoil. I'd say "go to Hell" but why bother, she's already built her own Hell.''
--'''Spacewyrm''', [[https://fstdt.com/ZFX2DZV374SG6#85206 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]