Charles Williams Quotes

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

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.

My idea of going to hell is going somewhere where there are no books.

… cast into a burning hell

Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.

It's been like a bad dream I never woke from.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed in one self place; for where we are is Hell, and where Hell is, there must we ever be.

There sighs, lamentations and loud wailings resounded through the starless air, so that at first it made me weep; strange tongues, horrible language, words of pain, tones of anger, voices loud and hoarse, and with these the sound of hands, made a tumult which is whirling through that air forever dark, and sand eddies in a whirlwind.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.

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.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Like Jonah, the whale had swallowed me; unlike him, I believed I would spend eternity inside the belly of the beast.

I do suspect that this world is hell.

I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I have no mouth, and I must scream.

Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

To live forever should not be an obligation. In fact, eternal life should only be for those who wish for it, because if we are depressed and unhappy with our lives, just the idea of living forever is an unbearable source of suffering.