Hell On Earth Quotes

As far as I understand, the Second Coming is already here. It’s a consciousness. It is not someone who is going to arrive and land in a clearing in the forest. The Hell that they talk of is going to be people creating their own unhappiness, a Hell on Earth.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It’s the worst experience I’ve ever had in my life. Besides death.

We’re in a place where no words can tell the truth about what happened… But they have to. This was hell on earth.

Often the people most concerned about others going to hell when they die seem less concerned with the hells on earth right now, while the people most concerned with the hells on earth right now seem the least concerned about hell after death.

I’m an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that’s the party, and you live your hell on earth.

It’s true that the more you put in the more you get out and that has to be there I think, If you aren’t really hooked on your instrument this job would be a hell on earth but if you are, it’s the best.

What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.

There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth.

Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn’t, then you’re doing it wrong.

It’s a finite and very competitive world. All large aggregations of capital eventually find it hell on earth to grow and thus find a lower rate of return.

Writing is so difficult that I feel that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.

I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself.

The idea of heaven is Christianity’s way of creating a hell on earth.

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I believe all drunks go to heaven, because they’ve been through hell on Earth.