“Truthfully, wicked people reveal themselves in words first, to inhibit speech would inhibit us seeing the wicked before they act.”
Source: Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
“Oh, what the hell." She stepped in and pressed the button.
Maybe using the word hell was her mistake. The doors closed and then opened again, filling with smoke that wound its way around her shoulders and down her body before she could react. She found herself being pulled forward.
Hades's face suddenly appeared inches from her own. "Hello there, Meg-let. Miss me?”
Source: Go the Distance
“Eona - The dragon of Hell”
“Hell is my enemy, not you. Even the cruelest ones, who delight in their malice - they all started their journey in the same way. As victims.”
Source: The Woman in Darkness
“O corse of the Locked Tomb," you extemporized wildly. "Beloved dead, hear your handmaiden. I loved you with my whole rotten, contemptible heart―I loved you to the exclusion of aught else―let me live long enough to die at your feet."
Then you went under to make war on Hell.”
Source: Harrow the Ninth
“When I can't see myself I begin to wonder if I really and truly exist. I pat myself just to make sure, but it doesn't help much.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“So," the Dalai Lama finally said, slapping the Archbishop on the wrist playfully. "I prefer to go to hell than to heaven. I can solve more problems in hell. I can help more people there.”
Source: The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
“To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out - but you can't prevent your being there.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“I've dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“Hell is now. Saying it happens later is a power play.”
Source: The Truth Is