{"quotes":[{"text":"Streets teemed with hell's wretched souls. New dead with their gadgets and old dead from antiquity. Demons roamed the avenues and alleyways, tormenting hapless damned at random with branding irons, flaming pitchforks, and razor-wire whips. -From the story Remember, Remember, Hell in November, in the anthology, Lawyers in Hell.","author":"Larry Atchley Jr.","tags":["damnation","damned","dead","demons","hell","lawyers-in-hell"],"id":23466,"author_id":"Larry+Atchley+Jr."},{"text":"They placed their bets with such self righteous bravado, but I’m the one who lost.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["damned","fiction"],"id":26376,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"When I speak of God, I mean that god who prevented man from putting forth his hand and taking also of the fruit of the tree of life that he might live forever; of that god who multiplied the agonies of woman, increased the weary toil of man, and in his anger drowned a world—of that god whose altars reeked with human blood, who butchered babes, violated maidens, enslaved men and filled the earth with cruelty and crime; of that god who made heaven for the few, hell for the many, and who will gloat forever and ever upon the writhings of the lost and damned.","author":"Robert G. Ingersoll","tags":["agony","anger","bible","blood","butcher","christianity","crime","cruelty","damned","earth","flood","god","heaven","hell","jehovah","judaism","lost","maidens","slavery","the-bible","the-flood","toil","tree-of-life","violate","weary","writhing","yahweh"],"id":84272,"author_id":"Robert+G.+Ingersoll"},{"text":"In saving Tamlin, I was to damn myself.","author":"Sarah J. Maas","tags":["damned","freyre","guilty","salvation","tamlin"],"id":105205,"author_id":"Sarah+J.+Maas"},{"text":"Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["bravery","chuck-palahniuk","courage","damned","fear"],"id":117199,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"I trust you. Those are the last words my father said before he left. That means that every decision I make, I would have to question myself whether it was the right one. I can picture him, expectations in his eyes. Because of that, I can see the same look in others. He could not have damned me more.","author":"Celia McMahon","tags":["damned","expectations","look","question"],"id":130096,"author_id":"Celia+McMahon"},{"text":"Mephistopheles: Why, this is hell, nor am I out of it.Think'st thou that I, who saw the face of GodAnd tasted the eternal joys of heaven,Am not tormented with ten thousand hellsIn being deprived of everlasting bliss?","author":"Christopher Marlowe","tags":["damned","hell","religion"],"id":146948,"author_id":"Christopher+Marlowe"},{"text":"For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?","author":"Anne Rice","tags":["anne-rice","damned","interview-with-the-vampire","vampire"],"id":149083,"author_id":"Anne+Rice"},{"text":"That's arrogance, Harry. ' he said, gently. 'On a level so deep, you don't even realize it exists. And do you know why it's there?' 'No?' I asked. He smiled again. 'Because you have set a higher standard for yourself. You think that, because you have more power than others, you have to do more with it.' 'To whom much is given, much is required,' I said, without looking up. He barked out a short laugh. 'For someone who repeatedly tells me he has no faith, you have a surprising capacity to quote scripture. And that's just my point.' I eyed him. 'What?' 'You wouldn't be twisting yourself into knots like this, Harry, if you didn't care.' 'So?' 'Monsters don't care,' Michael said. 'The damned don't care, Harry. The only way to go beyond redemption is to choose to take yourself there. The only way to do it is to stop caring.","author":"Jim Butcher","tags":["caring","damned","monsters","redemption"],"id":151802,"author_id":"Jim+Butcher"},{"text":"If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.","author":"E.A. Bucchianeri","tags":["blind","blindness","blindness-of-man","catholic","christian","damnation","damned","faust","faustian","hell","philosophical","sin","sinners"],"id":152081,"author_id":"E.A.+Bucchianeri"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}