Top 100 Earth Hell Quotes
#1. What makes the earth feel like hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like heaven. Earth is earth. Hell is hell. Now, stop with the whining and caterwauling.
Chuck Palahniuk
#2. Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper
#3. If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#4. God has given me authority in heaven and on earth, but my writ does not extend to hell. You will just have to put up with it.
Pope Paul III
#5. There is no hell after death to which your God can condemn us. We create our own hell here on earth by making the wrong choices. Life is not something that "happens to us" , it's something that we create and shape ourselves......
Karin Alvtegen
#6. There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.
Joyce Meyer
#7. You may not know it but the keeping of a large house by one girl is the hardest work going on earth. I heard there's fire in hell but I'll bet the Devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain't gonna clean itself.
Catherynne M Valente
#8. We are watched by a thousand eagle eyes; let us so act that we shall never need to care if all heaven, and earth, and hell, swelled the list of spectators.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#9. Looking for a job is one of Hell's choicest samples on earth.
Helen Woodward
#10. Modern scientific accomplishments" --a wealth of methods coupled with a poverty of intentions which, having nearly exhausted the hell-potential of the earth, move on now to the first frontier of the heavens.
Kenneth Patchen
#11. There hasn't been a single second in it when I haven't loved you, and I'll continue to love you until my fucking black soul is dragged from this earth, kicking and screaming to hell. Then, I'll continue to love you from there.
Samantha Towle
#12. These are my friends, my family. It would be hell on earth to spend the rest of my life leading them into situations where some of them are going to get killed ... but it would be worse watching someone well-meaning but incompetent or untrained double those deaths.
Mercedes Lackey
#13. You may remember that on earth - though of course we never confessed it - the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. My sixteenth was anything but sweet; it was more like the passage into hell on earth.
Kirsty Moseley
#15. At the beginning Earth was a hell; then it became a heaven! Hell is the road leading to heaven! Chestnut tastes good after roasted! When the sand lives through hell, it becomes a beautiful glass!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#16. When the world began, there were no such things as monsters. Demons were just fallen angels who, booted out of Heaven and bored with Hell, wandered the Earth sticking little girls' pigtails in inkwells and sinking the occasional continent.
Richard Kadrey
#17. Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda
#18. And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice
Cry "Havoc!" and let slip the dogs of war,
That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
With carrion men, groaning for burial.
William Shakespeare
#19. The Scripture makes it clear that this planet would already be a literal hell on earth were it not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in the world.
Billy Graham
#20. Do I not well deserve to be turned into hell, if the scorns and threats of blinded men, if the fear of silly, rotten earth, can drive me thither (588)?
Richard Baxter
#22. Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
Peter A. Levine
#23. Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#24. While life on earth offers many choices, eternity offers only two: heaven or hell. Your relationship to God on earth will determine your relationship to him in eternity.
Rick Warren
#25. They prefer their meals alive and terrified, for fear is their favorite sauce.
Donald G. Firesmith
#26. Beyond the earth,
beyond the farthest skies
I try to find Heaven and Hell.
Then I hear a solemn voice that says:
Heaven and hell are inside.
Omar Khayyam
#27. That town sits on the coals of the earth, at the very mouth of hell. They say that when people from there go to hell, they come back for a blanket.
Juan Rulfo
#28. Life -that complicated thing. One day, it took you to the perfection of happiness, with every meaning it might embrace. The other, it drove you to the limits of despair. The balance, however, was what made life either a paradise on earth, or a living hell.
Mariam Maarouf
#29. Life is whatever you make it, a heaven or hell on earth.
Steven Redhead
#30. God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.
Anatole France
#31. Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven on earth, and had turned out to be hell, here and now?
Fay Weldon
#32. Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.
Rob Bell
#33. Better for you to have one sleepless night on earth than millions in hell.
Leonard Ravenhill
#34. Perhaps you are experiencing 'hell on earth' right now, but you and I are not hopeless. We are not in a desperate state. You don't have to fear any future hell as well. Jesus has the keys already. He has the power over death and the grave. He is alive forevermore! Look to that. Rest on that always.
Tim Liwanag
#35. When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?
Frank Borman
#36. Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?
Ann-Marie MacDonald
#37. God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell.
Leon Brown
#38. And yet I swear
I love this earth
that scars and scalds,
that burns my feet.
And even hell is holy.
Gregory Orr
#39. This (Earth) is hell.
There are no fires, no burning pits of torment, no levels or rings or rivers of lava. When we die, we get put right back on earth to live our miserable existences over and over and over for all eternity.
Larissa Ione
#40. Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.
Donald G. Firesmith
#41. It's okay to laugh, you know. The earth's not going to split open. You're not going to hell. Believe me. If there's a hell, I'll be there ahead of you, and they'll be too busy with me to even check you in.
Jennifer Niven
#43. As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It's a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.
Jane Siberry
#44. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.
Matthew J. Hefti
#45. Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#46. There is no force in Earth or Heaven above,
No, not even the damned of Hell can stop relentless Love. ---Kari, The Valkyrie, Chapter Sixteen,
Valley of the Damned Epic Martial Poem/Allegory
Douglas M. Laurent
#47. No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.
Jerome K. Jerome
#48. There is no boundary between heaven and earth unless we believe in one.
Leland Dirks
#49. Marriage is one sweet way in which one can taste heaven on earth. Similarly, I can also become hell on earth.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. A warm, tickling touch crashed me back to earth. Maybe it sent me straight to heaven. Either way, it dragged me out of hell.
Katie McGarry
#51. Oh, dear Lord. I was in love with him. And there wasn't a thing on earth, in heaven, or in hell that could have stopped me
Wendy Higgins
#52. When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.
Leon Brown
#53. We don't know how to live together on Earth, how the hell are we going to live together on Mars?
Jacque Fresco
#54. This must not be planet earth," Cone told his partner. "This must be hell." But it wasn't. It was just Odessa.
H. G. Bissinger
#55. I could believe only in the hell I was living in, a hell on earth, and it was man-made, not God-made.
Michael Morpurgo
#56. Everyone, some sooner than others, must endure his or her own personal 'hell on earth.' It is important to keep searching for the small joys, although they are often the most elusive. Trust that these joys will appear, sometimes unexpectedly, and often in life's darkest moments.
Katie Gill
#57. In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#58. According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative - and woman's - to create their own particular and private hell.
Rod Serling
#59. It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.
Herbert Hoover
#60. Be careful with your faith !
It could make you see the good side of hell on earth.
Toba Beta
#61. This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth
ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!
- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901
Mark Twain
#62. Anyway, my ribs hurt like hell, my vision is still blurry from acceleration sickness, I'm really hungry, it'll be another 211 days before I'm back on Earth, and, apparently, I smell like a skunk took a shit on some sweat socks. This is the happiest day of my life.
Andy Weir
#63. With the cross around his neck he could be his old self again, he could have it all back if he wanted it, but it wasn't worth having. If you were going to live in hell on earth, there was something to be said for being one of the devils. - Horns p.381
Joe Hill
#64. The way we saw things, it didn't matter that God had created the heavens and the earth - he did not want us excited about living here. A good fundamentalist worth his weight in guilt was quick to remind any skeptic that the world was going to hell in a handbasket.
Matthew Paul Turner
#65. To leave behind what was in reality a hell, and immediately have this good green earth revealed in more glory than most men ever see it, was one of the compensating privileges which make me feel that my suffering was worthwhile.
Clifford Whittingham Beers
#66. If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
Austin O'Malley
#67. I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.
Ryan Montgomery
#68. I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
Mike Dirnt
#69. If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
C.S. Lewis
#70. Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth.
Octavia E. Butler
#71. I think Hell exists on Earth. It's a psychological state, or it can be a physical state. People who have severe mental illness are in Hell. People who have lost a loved one are in Hell. I think there are all kinds of different hells. It's not a place you go to after you die.
Al Franken
#72. With all the defects in our Constitution, whether general or particular, the comparison of our government with those of Europe, is like a comparison of Heaven with Hell. England, like the earth, may be allowed to take the intermediate station.
Thomas Jefferson
#73. Eve took a bite from the apple, chaos ensued... earth became hell as heaven retreated behind an impenetrable veil.
Hamilton Stone
#74. There was no point in the gods trying to separate us. Whether we were on Earth or in hell, we'd spend the rest our days look for the other.
Taisha DeAza
#75. There's no place on Earth, feck, there's no place in all of heaven or hell that they'll ever be safe from me again!
Karen Marie Moning
#76. Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.
Charles Caleb Colton
#77. I call hellfire a threat," Natasha said, " and 'love thy neighbor' a value. But I believe in hell, or something close to it. I think hell is what we get right here on earth when people trade their spiritual and political values in on spiritual and political threats.
David James Duncan
#78. If people elsewhere want to do everything possible to make it to America, people in America must do all things possible to make it to heaven!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. Bleeding for a decade
For a decade,
We bleed like there is no hell but the earth
We bleed like we were born to dare
We bleed like there is nothing alive inside.
We find a clue
After a decade
Bleeding is just to breath
Simply keeps us alive.
Arzum Uzun
#80. Some believed that Satan had come to earth in human form as a party activist, his collective farm register a book of hell, promising torment and damnation.
Timothy Snyder
#81. Nebraska is proof that hell is full and the dead are walking the earth.
Lizz Winstead
#82. There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.
C.S. Lewis
#83. He wanted his old life back instead of this new hell on earth that he had created for himself.
Valenciya Lyons
#84. When you become a Christian, you are not on earth to fight for Jesus; God needed only one battle to redeem the souls of humanity. It was the cross.
Felix Wantang
#85. The goal for most people should not be to feel better, but to get better at feeling.
Shannon L. Alder
#86. Hundreds of wise men cannot make the world a heaven, but one idiot is enough to turn it into a hell.
Raheel Farooq
#87. People shouldn't lie to each other to begin with. People shouldn't have to fear hell in order to tell the truth. They should fear that their lies will ruin relationships or get them in trouble, here now, on Earth, with the people they love.
Renee Carlino
#88. The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#89. We're in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened ... But they have to. This was hell on earth.
Aleksander Kwasniewski
#90. The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written.
Wallace Stevens
#91. Religion! but for thee, prolific fiend, Who peoplest earth with demons, hell with men, And heaven with slaves!
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#92. Fair summer droops, droop men and beasts therefore: So fair a summer look for never more. All good things vanish, less than in a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay. Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year; The earth is hell when thou leav'st to appear.
Thomas Nashe
#93. The signs of the old flame, I know them well.
I pray that the earth gape deep enough to take me down
or the almighty Father blast me with one bolt to the shades,
the pale, glimmering shades in hell, the pit of night,
before I dishonor you, my conscience, break your laws.
Virgil
#94. thus God's spiritual Israel shall be kept through the wilderness of this earth, and from the insults of the gates of hell.
Matthew Henry
#96. There is no Hell, other than that which men make on earth.
Lian Hearn
#97. As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.
Bob Hope
#99. Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.
Malcolm Lowry
#100. On the one hand you had people constantly fighting Hell; on the other, you had people constantly fighting Hell on earth.
Criss Jami
