"Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?"
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"The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical."
"Poverty is the openmouthed relentless hell which yawns beneath civilized society. And it is hell enough."
"Hell, the truth is that I was named after a dog!"
"I'm dragging the audience to hell with me"
"Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!"
"To all those who won't listen to my music because I don't smoke ganga, I say the hell with those people"
"When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity."
"I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God."
"If it does not come at the last to gladness, then to hell with it."
"Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell."
"If you are going through hell just keep going"
"Each of us bears his own Hell."
"To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell."
"To worship our false selves is to worship nothing. And the worship of nothing is hell."
"To emphasize the afterlife is to deny life. To concentrate on heaven is to create hell."
"My faith is whatever makes me feel good about being alive. If your religion doesn't make you feel good to be alive, what the hell is the point of it?"
"Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable."
"If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something."
"Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."