Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in heaven. But you would think that with all the queers they had sent here since time began, hell would have a better decorating job.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Do you think there is heaven or hell? he signed. ‘I don’t know. Not in the Christian way, i... DAVID WROBLEWSKI I think they felt, and I think many blacks would have felt the same way, that you were cheering that... ED GORDON Адът е тук и сега. Раят също. Престани да се плашиш от ад... ELIF SHAFAK Everyone at the agency feels shocked and numb. That was not supposed to happen. DAN HITCHINGS If heaven was hot and hell was chilly, tell me, why would you go to heaven? MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The specific 'heaven' you 'go to' is built upon what you believe and the hell you can descend to is ... ALAN B JONES Do all things possible to be recognized by Heaven, for that is the true noble thing! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful w... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Heaven would be Hell in no time if every cruel, selfish, vicious soul went to Heaven. ANNE RICE Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you wer... SUZY KASSEM But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into... JONATHAN SWIFT Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven. Quit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as the... ELIF SHAFAK I want to make sure when we came here that they felt comfortable with each other, that they felt goo... NANCY LOPEZ My hours are filled with fantasy and indifference. In day and night dreams, I think of my heav... KAMAND KOJOURI The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Neither Heaven nor Hell are far from routine. The biggest danger lies in the perception of the proxi... GARY RUDZ I had a sneaking suspicion that time was not constant, but I guess I could never prove it. I suppose... MARK A. ROEDER I asked, "You mean, you might as well spend your life going upward, through the happy places, since ... ELIZABETH GILBERT Hell was not a pit of fire and brimstone. Hell was waking up alone, the sheets wet with your tears a... LISA KLEYPAS My biggest regret shall be never going to Heaven ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I always felt in due time I would be rewarded. I totally believe this was the time it was supposed t... SAM PERLOZZO I've been here since the place began. We had no idea all this would happen. FRANK LOGAN I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bon... DEE DEE MYERS There's probably 20 guys out there that have more experience, better resumes. There is a little bit ... BRAD KORN What if heaven or hell have nothing to do with circumstances bestowed upon you and everything with t... RENATE VULLINGS Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines,... JOHN MILTON I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they... JOSS WHEDON When thou ascendest to thy Heaven I descend to my Hell—even then thou callest to me across the unb... KAHLIL GIBRAN Grand illnesses are supposed to be life-clarifying. Instead, I knew I was going to die—but I’d k... PAUL KALANITHI If brains could have orgasms, I'm pretty sure this was what it would feel like. I shouldn't like it,... CORA CARMACK Here, her hand in mine was the one reality that severed us from the cold click-clack of Hell. I rubb... STEVEN L. PECK We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught ... STEPHEN HAWKING I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for ... MATT GROENING There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model Unite... RAINN WILSON For some nights I slept profoundly; but still every morning I felt the same lassitude, and a languor... J. SHERIDAN LE FANU Being the captain, I was charged with ensuring that all the athletes are comfortable in camp, and th... EZEKIEL KEMBOI Here may we reign secure, and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell.
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SYLVIA PLATH Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fish... CLARK GABLE You have been to hell, Ketut?" He smiled. Of course he's been there. What's it like in hel... ELIZABETH GILBERT If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew. BILLY GRAHAM It is better to seek the pain of heaven than the pleasure of hell. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I think I had a job in a children's theatre. I taught badly because I was into nihilism at the time ... BETH HENLEY Here at last We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not driv... JOHN MILTON The organ was his forte, but he was gifted with all music. He'd look at music and it would be like h... DENNIS COFFIN Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Wherever I was, I was happy. At peace. I knew that everyone I cared about was all right. I knew it. ... 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We had for all the world, when human creatures;
And, therefo... JOHN DRYDEN I woke up dead. Not only dead...but in hell. I had always been somewhat sketchy on what th... PETER DAVID I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company. R. A. TORREY I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company. R.A. TORREY It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful. BILLY WILDER I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fea... ISAAC ASIMOV When I was little I bragged about my firefighting father: my father would go to heaven, because if h... JODI PICOULT This one is for our crew, but it’s also for all the weird girls and word nerds, for all the in-the... LAURA GOODE Do I believe in Heaven and Hell? I do, we have them here; the world is nothing else. JOHN DAVIDSON I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those ... DOUG TENNAPEL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN The kicker was that I was to be audited at least once a year, or at any time they think I need to be... DAVID NEFF Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER
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I could go to sleep in here.” His eyes flickered to me once more, and for a di... J.M. RICHARDS The only ghosts, I believe, who creep into this world, are dead young mothers, returned to see... J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ... J.M. BARRIE Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world. J.M. BARRIE It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ... J.M. BARRIE When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo... J.M. BARRIE Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth... J.M. BARRIE It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ... J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ... J.M. BARRIE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ... J.M. BARRIE Den Staat kümmert nicht, ob der Bürger lebt oder stirbt. Wichtig für den Staat und sein Archiv is... J.M. COETZEE Wie es im Zeitalter der Könige naiv gewesen wäre zu glauben, dass der erstgeborene Königssohn der... J.M. COETZEE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence. J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But... J.M. DARHOWER The sun is setting, the sky is a tumult of oranges, reds and violets. J.M. COETZEE I truly believe I am not afraid of death. What I shrink from, I believe, is the shame of dying as st... J.M. COETZEE Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o... J.M. LEDGARD From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth . J.M. COETZEE The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. J.M. BARRIE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ... J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos... J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb... J.M. DARHOWER Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary. J.M. BARRIE Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh... J.M. BARRIE You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me." J.M. BARRIE We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. J.M. BARRIE Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me... J.M. BARRIE See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life. J.M. BARRIE he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed to know a good deal. J.M. BARRIE Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies away with the big crust, you k... J.M. BARRIE All children, except one, grow up J.M. BARRIE For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and the moment you doubt whether yo... J.M. BARRIE No fue el dolor, sino lo injusto del asunto, lo que atontó a Peter. Lo dejó impotent... J.M. BARRIE Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night J.M. BARRIE I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf... J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose. J.M. CAMPOS I don’t want to go home yet.” He twisted at the waist and patted the seat behind him. “Take a ... J.M. STEWART The reason is that as far as I am concerned, what happened to me is a purely private matter. In anot... J.M. COETZEE Adam delayed only a second longer before traversing into the uncertain future, crossing the hidden d... J.M. NORTHUP He would not mind hearing Petrus's story one day. But preferably not reduced to English. More and mo... J.M. COETZEE Poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of respo... J.M. COETZEE I'm sorry, my child, I just find it hard to whip up an interest in the subject. It's admirable, what... J.M. COETZEE People who bring sunshine into the lives of others, cannot keep it from themselves. J.M. BARRIE Dia wrinkled her nose. “Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out.” �... J.M. DARHOWER All you need is Faith, Trust and a little Pixie Dust J.M. BARRIE Die Herren der Information haben die Poesie aus dem Auge verloren, wo Worte eine Bedeutung haben kö... J.M. COETZEE I am not young enough to know everything. SIR J.M. BARRIE Christians should put survival of the planet ahead of national security...Here is the mystery of our... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN