Men talk of heaven, – there is no heaven but here;
Men talk of hell, – there is no hell but here;
Men of hereafters talk and future lives, –
O love, there is no other life – but here.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

What is hell?…The suffering that comes from the consciousness that one is no longer able to love.

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.’

The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, ‘Where the hell is my roof?

It happens that once we learn a thing, the motivation to keep it up grows and expands further as well. If you’re going through hell, keep going.

Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out – I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Some men can get results if kindly encouraged, but give me the kind that do things in spite of hell.

The road to hell was paved with the bones of men who did not know when to quit fighting.

Because I have confidence in the power of truth and in the spirit, I believe in the future of mankind. Affirmation of the world and of life contains within itself an optimistic willing and hoping which can never be lost. It is, therefore, never afraid to face the dismal reality and to see it as it really is.

I don’t know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

How the hell can I make my teammates better by practicing?!

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

I was lazy. I would have been a hell of a lot better actress had I taken it more seriously. I never had the proper respect for acting. Quite often, I learned my lines on the way to the studio.

…I just want to be free of the fears and anxieties and the superstitions of religion. An ‘avenging GOD’? One who created Hell for those who don’t believe? I thought we were the perfect and holy children of GOD? How could any limits possibly be put upon us? Hell.. really? I’m sorry, but… no. Wrong. You’re wrong. That’s an insane GOD and therefore not mine. Because, see, GOD would be very sane, don’t you get it?

If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from.

Get the hell out of my way!

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Marriage may be the closest thing to Heaven or Hell any of us will know on this earth.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

Why in the hell do journalists insist on coming up with a second rate Freudian evaluation on my lyrics when 90% of the time they’ve transcribed the lyrics incorrectly?

I’m a good friend, but I’m a hell of an enemy. As your enemy, I want your demise. When I feel that in my heart it burns till I die.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

If you’re going to walk through hell, keep going.

I don’t know where hell is … another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there … it’s a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It’s a plane of evil … despair … and magic of the foulest kind.

We always imagine that there’s got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there’s no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here…Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

God knows instantly and effortlessly all matter and all matters, all mind and every mind, all spirit and all spirits, all being and every being, all creaturehood and all creatures, every plurality and all pluralities, all law and every law, all relations, all causes, all thoughts, all mysteries, all enigmas, all feeling, all desires, every unuttered secret, all thrones and dominions, all personalities, all things visible and invisible in heaven and in earth, motion, space, time, life, death, good, evil, heaven, and hell.

The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough. There is not enough difference between the people inside the church and those outside to be impressive. A church in which saints were as common as now they are rare would convict the world, if only by contrast. Sanctity cannot be ignored. Even a little bit is potent. So far from the gates of hell prevailing against it, it hammers on their triple steel.

My sister is going to have a simple wedding. Just immediate family. And whoever the hell would want to marry her.

A playwright… is… the litmus paper of the arts. He’s got to be, because if he isn’t working on the same wave length as the audience, no one would know what in hell he was talking about.

If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley.

We ain’t got nothing without love.That’s all we’ll have when the world is throughCause, baby, we ain’t got nothing without love.

The whole of theology, in regard to hell no less than to heaven, takes it for granted that Man is what is of most importance in the Universe of created beings. Since all theologians are men, this postulate has met with little opposition.