Better your own road to hell than another's road to heaven,

Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.

It follows, then, that the only way to get into Hell is to insist upon it. One must deliberately exclude himself from grace by hardening his heart against it. Hell is what the damned have actively and insistently wished for.

It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one — the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

This is for the times you went through hell so that someone else wouldn't have to.

Go to hell, but keep moving once you get there, come out the other side.

This is for the times you went through hell so someone else wouldn’t have to.

You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven.

You go to Heaven once you've been to Hell

Tis Dante I prefer. In his Inferno he suggests the one true path from Hell lies at its very heart...
...and that in order to escape, we must instead go further IN.

Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it; he depends upon himself for his own security; he flatters himself in what he has done, in what he is now doing, or what he intends to do. Every one lays out matters in his own mind how he shall avoid damnation, and flatters himself that he contrives well for himself, and that his schemes will not fail. They hear indeed that there are but few saved, and that the greater part of men that have died heretofore are gone to hell; but each one imagines that he lays out matters better for his own escape than others have done. He does not intend to come to that place of torment; he says within himself, that he intends to take effectual care, and to order matters so for himself as not to fail.

People have to be made to understand that they cannot look for salvation anywhere but to themselves.

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do.