But childhood prolonged cannot remain a fairy-land. It becomes a hell.

-Bogan, Louise
  On Katherine Mansfield.'Childhood's False Eden'.

I believe in God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth: And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord, Who was conceived by the Holy Ghost, Born of the Virgin Mary, Suffered under Pontius Pilate, Was crucified, dead, and buried: He descended into hell;The third day he rose again from the dead; He ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost;The holy Catholick Church;The Communion of Saints;The Forgiveness of sins;The Resurrection of the body, And the life everlasting. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer,  Apostle's Creed.

   I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell.

-Borovoy, A Alan
  When Freedoms Collide:  A Case for Our Civil Liberties. His personal maxim.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

-Borman, Frank
  In US, 21  Apr.

I have tried if I could reach that great resolution†to be honest without a thought of Heaven or Hell.

-Browne, SirThomas
^5  Religio Medici (published1643), pt.1, section 47.

There may be heaven; there must be hell.

-Browning, Robert
  Dramatic Romances and Lyrics,'Time's Revenges'.

Love is a Dog from Hell.

-Bukowski, Charles
  Title of book.

OThou that in the heavens does dwell! Wha, as it pleases best Thysel, Sends ane to heaven, an'ten to hell, A'forThy glory, And no for ony gude or ill They've done beforeThee!

-Burns, Robert
  'Holy Willie's Prayer', stanza1.

Ah,Tam! Ah,Tam! thou'll get thy fairin! In hell they'll roast thee like a herrin!

-Burns, Robert
  'Tam o' Shanter.  A  Tale'.

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

-Burton, Robert pseudonym DemocritusJunior
Anatomy of Melancholy, pt.1, section 2, member 4, subsection 7.

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

-Rochdale
^18  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 3, stanza 42.

Heaven's splendour over his head, Hell's darkness under his feet.

-Carlyle,Thomas
  Past and Present, bk.2, ch.15.

   Like being the captain of a mine-sweeper, if you do your job well, nobody notices.If you don't, there's a hell of an explosion.

-Catto, Henry E(dward)
  On his role as chief of protocol. In the Washington Post, 22 Mar.

The folk that livein Liverpool, their heart isintheir boots; They go to hell like lambs, they do, because the hooter hoots.

-Chesterton, G(ilbert) K(eith)
  'Me Heart'.

I have only one purposeöthe destruction of Hitler, and my life ismuch simplified thereby.If Hitler invaded Hell,I would at least make a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.

-Churchill, Lord Randolph Henry Spencer
Recalled in The Second World War, vol.3 (1950), ch.20.

Heaven has no rage, like love to hatred turned, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorned.

-Congreve,William
  Zara. The Mourning Bride, act 3, sc.8.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has cummings thoroughly and perfectlyannihilated by that vast and painful process of Unthinking which may result in a minutebitof purelypersonal Feeling.Whichminutebit is Art. colossal faults, but onething cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
  The Enormous Room, ch.12. 1927  'Why I Like  America', in Vanity Fair, May.

We doctors know a hopeless case ifölisten: there's a hell of a good universe next door; let's go

-cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings
1x1, no.14.

Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell.

-Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth
Complete Poems, no.1732 (first published1896).

What is hell? Hell is oneself, Hell is alone, the other figures in it Merely projections. There is nothing to escape from And nothing to escape to.One is always alone.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Cocktail Party, act1, sc.3.