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.
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
The path to paradise begins in hell.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
In this world, we walk on the roof of hell, gazing at flowers.
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.
The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
“There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alon.
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
Hell is other people.
The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.
My childhood was a peroid of waiting to the moment when i could send everyone in it to hell.
Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.
Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.