William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
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Hell
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Dante Alighieri
Poet, Philosopher
"The path to paradise begins in hell."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"God will never send anybody to hell. If man goes to hell, he goes by his own free choice."
Osamu Dazai
Novelist
"Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness.Everything passes.That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell.Everything passes."
John Wayne
Actor, Director
"I have tried to live my life so that my family would love me and my friends respect me. The others can do whatever the hell they please."
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"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell."
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"Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions."
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"To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it."
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"Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living"
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"Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been."
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"For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there."
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"Optimism, pessimism, f**k that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work."
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"Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself."
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"If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell."
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"How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."
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"If you have a bad thought about yourself, tell it to go to hell because that is exactly where it came from."
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"If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew."
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"I have played hell somewhat with the truthfulness of the colours."
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"What the hell-you might be right, you might be wrong...but don't just avoid."
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"Faith is what is left after all your beliefs have been blown to hell."
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"Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell."
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"Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!"
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"We probaly in hell already, our dumb asses not knowin, everybody kissin ass to go to heaven aint goin."
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"The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell."
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"Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell."
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