But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.

But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell,
And there hath been thy bane.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Hell is more bearable than nothingness.

Hell is paved with infants' skulls.

Hell is paved with infants' skulls.

There is in hell a place stone-built throughout,
Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,
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There is in hell a place stone-built throughout,
Called Malebolge, of an iron hue,
Like to the wall that circles it about.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]

From all sides there is equally a way to the lower world.
[Lat., Undique ad inferos tantundem viae est.]

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.

But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests
are in the depths of hell.

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

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