"As long as I knew I was going to hell, I decided to do it thoroughly.

- Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

"I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
— C.S. Lewis (The Silver Chair)

"Hell isn't so bad,when you get to keep an angel with you."
— Stephenie Meyer

"Maybe this world is another planet’s hell."
— Aldous Huxley

"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened. "
— C.S. Lewis (The Great Divorce)

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

"In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?"
— Anne Rice

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
— Oscar Wilde

"Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts,...Your affectionate uncle, Screwtape."
— C.S. Lewis (The Screwtape Letters)

"I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes from Underground)

"Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like."
— David Sedaris

"An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise."
— Victor Hugo (Ninety-Three)

"Each of us has heaven and hell in him..."
— Oscar Wilde

"Hell is just a frame of mind."
— Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus)

"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!"
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

"'No sight so sad as that of a naughty child,' he began, 'especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked go after death?'

'They go to hell,' was my ready and orthodox answer.

'And what is hell? Can you tell me that?'

'A pit full of fire.'

'And should you like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?'

'No, sir.'

'What must you do to avoid it?'

I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come was objectionable: 'I must keep in good health and not die.'"
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"You will say that these are very small sins; and doubtless, like all young tempters, you are anxious to be able to report spectacular wickedness. But do remember, the only thing that matters is the extent to which you separate the man from the Enemy. It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one-the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
— C.S. Lewis

"Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven."
— Anne Rice (Memnoch the Devil)

"Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else."
— John Davidson

"Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe."
— Margaret Atwood (The Tent)

"Swamp Thing, in Hell: "Demon...How...could God...allow such a place?

Etrigan: Think you God built this place, wishing man ill and not lusts uncontrolled or swords unsheathed?

Not God, my friend. The truth's more hideous still: These halls were carved by men while yet they breathed.

God is no parent or policeman grim dispensing treats or punishments to all.

Each soul climbs or descends by its own whim. He mourns, but He cannot prevent their fall.

We suffer as we choose. Nothing's amiss. All torments are deserved..."
— Alan Moore (Swamp Thing Vol. 2: Love and Death)

"How can you believe in heaven if you don't believe in hell?"
— Cormac McCarthy

"Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell."
— Christopher Marlowe (Doctor Faustus)

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

"You don't have to believe in Hell. all you need is to hear someone who really does, who believes in it this minute, today, the way people believe in 1685 -- all you have to do is see his face, his voice when he says the word... and than you know that anyone who can imagine Hell has the power to make it real for other people."
— Peter S. Beagle (Tamsin)

"You remember I had a strong inclination all my life to be a painter. Under different circumstances I would rather have been a painter than to bother with these god-damn words. I never actually thought of myself as a poet but I knew I had to be an artist in some way."
— William Carlos Williams (I Wanted to Write a Poem: The Autobiography of the Works of a Poet)

"Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still distinct from it. You may even criticize it in yourself and wish you could stop it. But there may come a day when you can no longer. Then there will be no you left to criticize the mood or even to enjoy it, but just the grumble itself, going on forever like a machine. It is not a question of God "sending us" to hell. In each of us there is something growing, which will BE hell unless it is nipped in the bud. "
— C.S. Lewis

"Don't let your meatloaf!"
— Matt Groening

"Wherever you go..., you'll see Heaven and Hell on every side... in us. Look for them and you'll soon know them. There on your left, Hell shuffles by, carrying a reluctant, gloomy chicken, his only comrade. There on your right, Heaven spring past, singing - a lunatic, a little too much for civilized contact.

Just the way it always was."
— Daniel Quinn (Newcomer's Guide to the Afterlife: On the Other Side Known Commonly As "The Little Book")