There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

Ben Jonson

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Victor Hugo

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

John Milton

The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day’s time they will have turned it into a Hell.

Jeremy Bentham

The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear.

Swami Vivekananda