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In fantasy and popular mythical parlance, the underworld is synonymous with all that is hellish, dark, and torture.
Similarly, if we connect the underworld with our psyche, everything dark, loveless, ignorant, and empty without compassion is the real hells in our lives.
The mystic poet Khalil Gibran powerfully quotes, ‘ Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.’
Let these wisdom-rich, thought-provoking underworld quotes and sayings open our eyes to all that is hell in our lives and reconnect to the heaven within us.
Best Underworld Quotes and Sayings
Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.
– Khalil Gibran
Hell is paved with good samaritans.
– William M. Holden
Hell is having no option but the wrong one.
– Koushun Takami
Hell was made for the inquisitive.
– Saint Augustine
Hell is full of the talented, but Heaven of the energetic.
– Jane Frances de Chantal
The whole extent of hell, the present suffering, the bitter recollection of the past, the hopeless prospect of the future, will never be thoroughly known except by those who go there.
– J. C. Ryle
Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed.
– Bhagavad Gita
The gateway to the underworld is seen as part antiquity and part theatre. Welcome to the lower depths.
– Peter Ackroyd
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
– George Bernard Shaw
No one should brave the underworld alone.
– Edgar Allan Poe
If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.
– Charles Spurgeon
Hell lies at the bottom of the human heart.
– Ross MacDonald
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
– Philip Roth
Hell is truth seen too late – duty neglected in its season.
– Tryon Edwards
Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
– William Law
Hell trembles at a heaven-directed eye.
– Thomas Ken
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
– William Congreve
The fear of Hell is a very powerful motivation.
– Richard Dawkins
The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.
– Ernest Hemingway
There is no hell, no inferno except the frenzy of living.
– Henri Barbusse
The entrance to the Underworld is in Los Angeles.
– Rick Riordan
Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.
– Billy Sunday
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
– Samuel Johnson
Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
– A.J. Cronin
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
– G.K. Chesterton
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
– Robert Frost
No one will ever go to Hell who has put his trust in Jesus Christ, but many will end up in torment who have trusted their own righteousness and reformation.
– Curtis Hutson
Hell is just a frame of mind.
– Christopher Marlowe
Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.
– Gautama Buddha
Hell is full of high court judges.
– Sting
Hell is truth known too late.
– J. C. Ryle
Hell is the impossibility of reason.
– Oliver Stone
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
– George Herbert
The road to Hell is paved with the best of conscious intentions.
– Elizabeth F. Howell
Hell is God’s Absence.
– Edmund White
The other side of the sacred is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.
– Gary Snyder
Hell itself must yield to industry.
– Ben Jonson
Hell is the wrath of God–His hate of sin.
– Philip James Bailey
The fear of hell is the basis for the Christian faith.
– Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
– Philip James Bailey
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
– Bernard of Clairvaux
The Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.
– Benjamin Rush
Hell has no benefits, only torture.
– John Milton
Hell is very likely to be modernization infinitely extended.
– Tom Stoppard
Hell is indefinite.
– Charles Williams
It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.
– Don Marquis
The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice.
– Rick Riordan
In the underworld, reality itself has elastic properties and is capable of being stretched into different definitions of the truth.
– Roderick Vincent
Hell is not punishment, it’s training.
– Shunryu Suzuki
In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?
– Anne Rice
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