Hell On Earth Quotes

She gave herself a hard twist and fell into a sitting position, staring at me with those maggot-filled doll’s eyes.

~ Steven Ramirez

Sal turned, an eye stalk hanging from his teeth.

~ Steven Ramirez

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me.

~ Steven Ramirez

It’s not about winning, it’s about doing what’s right. And yes, we will do what’s right.

~ Steven Ramirez

I’m not a bad person.

~ Steven Ramirez

I was a spectator who had gotten free admission to a freak show.

~ Steven Ramirez

I felt a lunatic’s laugh welling up inside me.

~ Steven Ramirez

Did you ever think it won’t be the undead who kill us, but ordinary people?

~ Steven Ramirez

Drive. He’s already dead.

~ Steven Ramirez

But I was still determined to protect her. It might be the one good thing I would ever do in my life. I wondered if God would even notice.

~ Steven Ramirez

Even now I can’t describe the fear that contaminated my blood like black ink.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Can’t you see what they are?’ I said. ‘They’re all dead.’

~ Steven Ramirez

I don’t know how these things died without benefit of a bullet to the brain pan. They seemed to exist in an eternal twilight of longing.

~ Steven Ramirez

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

~ Steven Ramirez

For an instant I saw before me the young girl this used to be.

~ Steven Ramirez

‘Eighth one this week,’ he said.

~ Steven Ramirez

I knew then I was going to die in the street without ever seeing Holly again. All because I tried to help an old woman, proving for all eternity that no good deed goes unpunished.

~ Steven Ramirez

During our time together in this place Holly didn’t outright avoid me or treat me rudely. But she wasn’t—how do women like to put it? She wasn’t emotionally available to me.

~ Steven Ramirez

Her voice was small and distant, like she’d already left the room.

~ Steven Ramirez

His eyes were like two wafers of slate, grey and lifeless.

~ Steven Ramirez

A riverless silence made the air heavy.

~ Steven Ramirez

Some men are sent to heaven by torturers who thought they were doing god's work by sending them to hell

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

I found that I couldn't muster any belief in a literal heaven or hell, anyway. I thought the best we could all do was to look after one another and clean up the various hells we've made right here on earth.

~ Octavia E. Butler

Many people don't fear a hell after this life and that's because hell is on this earth, in this life. In this life there are many forms of hell that people walk through, sometimes for a day, sometimes for years, sometimes it doesn't end. The kind of hell that doesn't burn your skin; but burns your soul. The kind of hell that people can't see; but the flames lap at your spirit. Heaven is a place on earth, too! It's where you feel freedom, where you're not afraid. No more chains. And you hear your soul laughing.

~ C. Joybell C.

The hardest part of being a Canadian kid is having to color in Nunavut with a crayon in school, hell on earth.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it—hell or the suffering realms—it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens.

~ Lama Thubten Yeshe

A man can feel pain in an amputated arm (an arm that is not there). A man can also feel anxious when he thinks about how his soul will burn in the fire of hell when he is threatened by it though he cannot see it physically

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Create hell and people will be impatient to get there, just out of curiosity

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Life is stripped of its flavor when folks are told that hell is waiting for them

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

It's a harrowing experience to see death approaching in haste towards you, what is hell but confronting your own mortality

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The teachers of hell should be sent there first to be able to describe it accurately

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

The best way to turn the earth into hell is to turn the state into a god.

~ Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

If god created hell, who will blame his followers for trying to establish it on earth

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

What makes the earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it ought to feel like Heaven.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe someone made a grievous mistake when summer was created, no novitiate or god in their right mind would make a season akin to hell on purpose. Someone should be fired.

~ Michelle Franklin