Edmund White Quotes

You heard of hell, well I was sent from it.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

Sin is absence of God. Nothing more, nothing less.

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

If you look at any religious description of hell, it is the same as human society, the way we dream. Hell is a place of suffering, a place of fear, a place of war and violence, a place of judgment and no justice, a place of punishment that never ends.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Nothing could add to the horror of hell, except the presence of its creator, God.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

When my son was murdered, people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said, 'No, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil, and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil.'

I wasn't angry with God that I lost my husband. I was devastated; I was broken. I still am, in many ways. But I feel like God gives free will to everyone, and people who want to choose evil, they have that same free will.

Why doesn't that Devil take me with him? It would be much better with him than it is here.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

… cast into a burning hell

That's what 'Hell On Earth' was about: we felt that we were living in hell.

At Westboro, the depictions of hell are extremely vivid. The only thing that changes in hell, according to the church, is your capacity to feel pain. As the capacity to feel pain increases, so does the pain. It's absolutely terrifying. I believed God was going to curse me for having left this group of people.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

Despair is the only genuine atheism.

Man suffers through lack of faith in God.

Those who are not Christians go to a place of suffering and torment called hell.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

The bodies of the damned shall be crowded together in hell, like grapes in a wine-press, which press one another till they burst; every distinct sense and organ shall be assailed with its own appropriate and most exquisite sufferings.