Every man is his own hell.
-H. L. Mencken
Each man's hell is in a different place.
- Charles Bukowski
Hell is a different place for each man,
or each man has his own particular hell.
-Anais Nin
I hold it to be the alienable right
of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
-Robert Frost
The word for hell had a sharp edge
Put on it by the hand of the wind
Honing, honing with a shrill sound
Day and night.
-R. S. Thomas
Hell is being caught in Ego.
-Carl Jung
I believe that I am in hell,
therefore I am there.
-Arthur Rimbaud
I live in my deepest hell,
and from there I cannot fall any further.
-Carl Jung
The door to Hell
is locked from the inside.
-James A. Pike
There is no greater hell
than to be a prisoner of fear.
-Ben Jonson
Hell is other people.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Hell is not other people.
Hell is no other people.
-Fay Weldon
Hell isn't other people.
Hell is yourself.
-Ludwig Wittgenstein
Hell is oneself;
Hell is alone, the other figures in it
Merely projections.
-T. S. Eliot
In this world
we live in a mixture of time and eternity.
Hell would be pure time.
-Simone Weil
What is hell?
I maintain that it is the suffering
of not being able to love.
-Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Hell, madam, is to no longer love.
-George Bernanos
Hell is a place, a time, a consciousness,
in which there is no love.
-Richard Bach
Hell is life drying up.
-Joseph Campbell
Hell is the opposite of joy.
It is unfulfillment.
It is knowing Who and What You Are
and failing to experience that.
It is being less.
-Neale Donald Walsch
Hell is where you live
when I AM is ignored.
-Kenneth G. Mills
Individuals are in hell
when they forget the spiritual essence of their being.
-Haridas Chaudhuri
The safest road to Hell is the gradual one -
the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings,
without milestones, without signposts.
-C. S. Lewis
Hell is the region where you live
wrapped up in personality and its complexes.
-Kenneth G. Mills
Hell is the incapacity to be other than
the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.
-Aldous Huxley
The way back home passes through that one place - that one hell -
we want most to avoid.
-Albert Camus
Hell is not punishment,
it's training.
-Shunryu Suzuki
If you're going through hell,
keep going.
-Winston Churchill
And builds a heaven in Hell's despair.
-William Blake
It took me forty years on earth
To reach this sure conclusion:
There is no Heaven but clarity,
No Hell except confusion.
-Jan Struther
When you first learn to love hell,
you will be in heaven.
-Thaddeus Golas
those who escape hell
however
never talk about
it
and nothing much
bothers them
after
that.
-Charles Bukowski
