in Quotes & Aphorisms (Heaven & Hell)
We are in hell and I will have my turn!
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We are in hell and I will have my turn!
God, the devil, good, evil, it's all in our heads, not in Heaven or Hell, which we also invented. We do not realize that, having invented God, we immediately became His slaves.
Criminals together. We're in hell, my little friend, and there's never any mistake there. People are not damned for nothing.
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
And then my mind made its first earnest effort to comprehend what had been infused into it concerning heaven and hell: and for the first it recoiled baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it, it saw all round an unfathomed gulf: it felt the one point where it stood the present; all the rest was formless cloud and vacant depth: and it shuddered at the thought of tottering, and plunging amid that chaos.
What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.
Of a poor man's hell is made a rich man's heaven.
There is so many sick and exhausted people that, generally, the paradise is conceived like a place to rest.
I've by ever... a foot into paradise and the other into hell.