When thought is closed in caves, then love will show its roots in deepest hell.

- William Blake

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

- George Bernard Shaw

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

- Harry S Truman

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishment after I'm dead.

- Kurt Vonnegut

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

- Marge Piercy

An Inuit hunter asked the local missionary priest: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Inuit earnestly, "did you tell me?"

- Annie Dillard

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. I am not afraid.

- Marcus Aurelius

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

- Thomas Alva Edison

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

- Carl Sandburg

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.

- Isaac Asimov

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

- John Calvin

My life closed twice before its close;
    It yet remains to see
If Immortality unveil
    A third event to me,
So huge, so hopeless to conceive,
    As these that twice befell.
Parting is all we know of heaven,
    And all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson

Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

- Emily Dickinson

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

- John Milton

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

- Mark Twain

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.

- Dante Aleghieri



Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

- Mark Twain



The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

- John Milton



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.

- Isaac Asimov



If you're going through hell, keep going.

- Winston Churchill



To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson