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Hell Quotes - Page 28

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

Hell is life drying up.

Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.10, Joseph Campbell Foundation

All hell broke loose.

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 917 (1667). "Hell were broken loose" appears in Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humor act 3, sc. 4 (1601).

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

Paradise Lost bk. 4, l. 73 (1667)

Nor from hell One step no more than from himself can fly By change of place.

John Milton (1773). “The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost: Rendered Into Grammatical Construction ... with Notes Grammatical, Geographical, Historical, Critical, and Explanatory. To which are Prefixed Remarks on Ellipsis and Transposition ...”, p.235

It is better; heavier, crueler. The mouth you wear for hell.

"No Exit". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Act 1, sc. 5, 1944.

The Old Man ain’t afraid of hell

James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.648, Library of America

Hell itself is truth known too late

J.C. Ryle (2015). “The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times”, p.253, Whitaker House

There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.

Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.157, 1st World Publishing