Sweet Suffering: 43 Pinhead Quotes from Every Hellraiser Movie

About Pinhead and Hellraiser

The Hellraiser movies are notorious for bringing S&M and Torture into the horror genre. Or at the very least for making it popular. However, while there are plenty of horror fans who love the torture aspects of the Hellraiser films, it wouldn't be quite the same without the frightening hell priest, Pinhead, and his legion of his cenobites.

Originally portrayed by Doug Bradley, Pinhead was introduced to audiences in Clive Barker's Hellraiser as "Lead Cenobite." However, it's when Hellraiser expanded into a franchise with the 2nd and 3rd films that he became known to audiences as "Pinhead." For obvious reasons.

While frightening to behold, Pinhead is an incredible antagonist throughout the Hellraiser films as he utters incredibly haunting and biblically damning phrases that will send a chill down your spine.

Quotes that are so much fun to revisit.

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Best Pinhead Quotes

“Explorers, in the further regions of experience. Demons to some, angels to others.” - Pinhead

“We have such sights to show you!” - Pinhead

“Oh, no tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering!” - Pinhead

“You solved the box. We came. Now you must come with us. Taste our pleasures.” - Pinhead

“Your suffering will be legendary, even in hell!” - Pinhead

“It is not hands that summon us. It is desire.” - Pinhead

“No more deals, child, it is your flesh we want to experience, not your skill at bargaining.” - Pinhead

“But he is in his own Hell, child, and quite unreachable.” - Pinhead

“But please, feel free, explore. We have eternity to know your flesh.” - Pinhead

“This is my body, this is my blood, happy are they who come to my supper.” - Pinhead

“Human dreams… such fertile ground for the seeds of torment. You're so ripe Joey, and it's harvest time.” - Pinhead

“Save your tears. I'll reap your sorrow slowly. I have centuries to discover the things that make you whimper.” - Pinhead

“You think your nighttime world is closed to me? Your mind is so naked. A book that yearns to be read. A door that begs to be opened.” - Pinhead

“I will enjoy making you bleed. And I will enjoy making you enjoy it.” - Pinhead

Unbearable, isn't it? The suffering of strangers, the agony of friends. There is a secret song at the center of the world, Joey, and its sound is like razors through flesh.” - Pinhead

“Hell has no furies for a woman scorned.” - Pinhead

“Don't debate with me, girl! Just come here and die while you still have the option of doing it quickly!” - Pinhead

“Why resist? You love this as much as I. After all, you made me. There is a world out there, waiting to yield to us. So much flesh, so many different pleasures.” - Pinhead

“Down the dark decades of your pain, this will seem like a memory of Heaven.” - Pinhead

“I am offering you a place at my right hand - flesh, power, dominion.” - Pinhead

“Do I look like someone who cares what God thinks?” - Pinhead

“What you think of as pain is a shadow. Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you. Gentlemen, I… Am… Pain.” - Pinhead

“The remnants of a most unsatisfying victim. Still… you're here to change all that… aren't you?” - Pinhead

“Temptation is illusion. But the time for trickery is past. In this game, we show ourselves as we really are.” - Pinhead

“Glorious, is it not? The creatures who walk its surface, always looking to the light, never seeing the untold oceans of darkness beyond. There are more humans alive today than in all of its pitiful history. The Garden of Eden. A garden of flesh.” - Pinhead

“Two minutes. Two centuries. It all ticks by so quickly. You are so very like your ancestor, did you know that? I have the distinct sense of déjà vu. The same defiance, the same faithless hope in the light.” - Pinhead

“Oh, you suffer beautifully. But I am here for business, not pleasure.” - Pinhead

“Welcome to the worst nightmare of all… reality!” - Pinhead

“Which do you find more exhilarating, Trevor, the pain or the pleasure? Personally, I prefer pain.” - Pinhead

“Seeing is believing. I should have come for you a long time ago.” - Pinhead

“You still don't understand, do you? There is no way out for you, Chelsea. Oh, what wonders we have to show you.” - Pinhead

“Dreams are fleeting. Only nightmares last forever!” - Pinhead

“Don't you think for a second you are not in danger!” - Pinhead

“This world, it obviously disappoints you all. That is why you chose to begin this journey. And since you gave yourselves so willingly, allow me to finish what he started.” - Pinhead

“You opened the box and your soul belongs to me.” - Pinhead

“When you attempted to live beyond death, you entered into my domain.” - Pinhead

“It seems that evil does run in the family. Your lineage is that of a craftsman, a maker of toys. You should have stayed in the family business. I sacrificed my mortal self to that box.” - Pinhead

“Fool. We had all we desired. Our appetite was sated. And the eternity of suffering he would've experienced at our hands, would've been more vengeance for you then you can possibly imagine. But your actions have denied us. Denied us that exquisite joy. Now there is a deficit of flesh. Debt is outstanding. And we seek payment.” - Pinhead

“We are the light in the darkness, and paths to higher sensation. Guardians of ultimate experience. And now you will come with us.” - Pinhead

“There is so much more the body can be made to feel. And you'll feel it all before we're through.” - Pinhead

“Accept the pain you have wrought. Greater delights await. We wish to see you proceed.” - Pinhead

“We will not be denied. Your blood is in our hands now, ours to claim at any time. But the box, I leave in yours.” - Pinhead

“Enough is a myth.” - Pinhead

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