Edward Hopper is the great painter of American hell in the 20th century, the limner-laureate of the beauty, poignance, eternityand bone-ache disquietude of life.

-Allen, Henry Southworth
 In the Washington Post, 25  Jun.

To the Glorious,Pious, and Immortal Memory of King William theThird,Prince of Orange, who delivered us from Popes and Popery, Knaves and Knavery, Slaves and Slavery, Brass Money, and Wooden Shoes, and He that Will Not Take thisToast May He Be Damn'd,Cramm'd, and Jamm'd Down the Great Gun of Athlone, and the Gun Fired in the Pope's Belly, and the Pope Fired in the Devil's Belly, and the Devil Fired into Hell, and the Door Lock'd, and the Key Forever in the Pocket of a Stout Orangeman. And Here's a Fart for the Bishop of Cork!

-Anonymous
c.1890  'The Orange Toast', traditional Protestant Irish.

Je sais la douleur est la noblesse unique O  u' ne mordront jamais la terre et les enfers. I know that pain is the one nobility upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Be¤  ne¤  diction' (translated by Richard Howard,1982).

What is to prevent a daily newspaper from being made the greatest organ of social life? Books have had their dayöthe theatres have had their dayöthe temple of religion has had its day. A newspaper can be made to take the lead of all these in the great movements of human thought and of human civilisation. A newspaper can send more souls to Heaven, and save more from Hell, than all the churches or chapels in New Yorköbesides making money at the same time.

-Bennett,James Gordon, Snr
  In the NewYork Herald,19  Aug.

L'enfer, Madame, c'est de ne plus aimer. Hell, Madam, is to no longer love.

-Bernanos, Georges
  Journal d'un cure¤   de campagne, ch.2.

Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection? It is as high asheaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know? The measurethereof islonger thanthe earth, and broader than the sea.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job11:7^9.

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms16:10.

   Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If Isay, Surely the darknessshall cover me; even thenight shall be light about me. Yea, the darkness hideth not from thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light are both alike to thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms139:7^12.

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 5:3^5.

Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 27:20.

We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Isaiah 28:15.

For thou hast powerof life and death: thou leadesttothe gates of hell, and bringest up again.

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Wisdom of Solomon16:13.

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast intohell. And ifthy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:29^30.

Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew16:18^19.

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole 1Timothy body, and setteth on firethe course of nature; and it isset on fire of hell.

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:6.

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation1:18.

And I looked, and beholda palehorse: and hisnamethat sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 6:8.

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And thesea gave up the dead whichwere in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And deathand hell were cast intothelake of fire.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 20:11^14.

Love seeketh not itself to please, Nor for itself hath any care, But for another gives its ease, And builds a heaven in hell's despair.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Clod and the Pebble'.

Love seeketh only self to please, To bind another to its delight, Joys in another's loss of ease And builds a hell in heaven's despite.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Clod and the Pebble'.