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Hell Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “If Hell is other people, thought Shadow, then Purgatory is airports.”

Neil Gaiman

Hell, People, Purgatory, Airports, Metaphor

2. “What power would hell have if those imprisoned here would not be able to dream of heaven?”

Neil Gaiman

Power, Hell, Dreams, Hope, Existential Questions

3. “Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.”

Neil Gaiman

Art, Heaven, Hell, Creativity, Comparison

4. “I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.”

Neil Gaiman

Hell, Internal Struggle, Perspective, Suffering, Personal Responsibility

5. “For where did Dante take the material of his hell but from our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

Dante, Literature, Hell, Human Experience, Creativity

6. “The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.”

W.H. Auden

Hell, Heaven, Morality, Paradox, Spiritual Metaphor

7. “Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.”

W.H. Auden

Hell, Free Will, Choice, Responsibility, Theological Insight

8. “If there are any souls in hell, it is because that is where they insist on being.”

W.H. Auden

Hell, Free Will, Damnation, Choice, Theological Insight

9. “To reign is worth ambition though in Hell: Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heav'n.”

John Milton

Ambition, Hell, Heaven, Pride, Power

10. “Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements, these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper.”

John Milton

Suffering, Adaptation, Hell, Transformation, Human Resilience

11. “Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.”

John Milton

Hell, Darkness, Paradox, Spiritual State, Imagery

12. “Pandemonium, the palace of Satan rises, suddenly built of the deep: the infernal peers there sit in council.”

John Milton

Hell, Satan, Evil, Council, Cosmic Order

13. “Where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all.”

John Milton

Despair, Hell, Hopelessness, Suffering, Damnation

14. “Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.”

John Milton

Pride, Fall, Divine Punishment, Hell, Ambition

15. “Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.”

John Milton

Pride, Rebellion, Power, Hell, Heaven

16. “I fled, and cry'd out, Death; Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, Death.”

John Milton

Death, Hell, Fear, Power Of Words, Cosmic Response

17. “Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.”

John Milton

Despair, Self-torment, Hell, Inescapable Nature, Inner Turmoil

18. “Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.”

John Milton

Redemption, Struggle, Hell, Light, Spiritual Journey

19. “Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.”

John Milton

Satan, Evil, Ambition, Hell, Cosmic Conflict

20. “Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts and from the bottom stir The Hell within him, for within him Hell He brings and round about him, nor from Hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.”

John Milton

Inner Turmoil, Hell, Self, Inescapable Nature, Torment