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There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind. (King Stephen)
Abandon all hope, you who enter here! (King Stephen)
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. (King Stephen)
I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. (King Stephen)
Hell is a half-filled auditorium. (King Stephen)
To be in a world which is a hell, to be of that world and neither to believe in or guess at anything but that world is not merely hell but the only possible damnation: the act of a man damning himself. It may be -- I hope it is -- redemption to guess and perhaps perceive that the universe, the hell which we see for all its beauty, vastness, majesty, is only part of a whole which is quite unimaginable. (King Stephen)
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. (King Stephen)
Hell is paved with good Samaritans. (King Stephen)
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. (King Stephen)
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. (King Stephen)
The safest road to hell is the gradual one -- the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. (King Stephen)
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. (King Stephen)
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. (King Stephen)
O Lord, wandering with thee, even hell itself would be to me a heaven of bliss. (King Stephen)
I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there. (King Stephen)
Hell is other people. (King Stephen)
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. (King Stephen)
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. (King Stephen)
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. (King Stephen)
If there is no Hell a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses. (King Stephen)
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. (King Stephen)
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