“We are each either among the demoralized showing the way to a future of eternal nightmare, or we are losers celebrating our moment in hell.”

— Thomas Ligotti , book The Spectral Link

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American horror author 1953

Stuart Wilde (1946–2013) English writer

“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

The New Gods (1969)

“We are not men, to have need of another, an eternal life; we are women, and for us one moment with man we love is everlasting Paradise, one moment far from the man we love is everlasting hell. It is here on earth that we women love out eternity”

Nikos Kazantzakis book The Last Temptation of Christ

Source: The Last Temptation of Christ

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet

Source: The Duchess of Padua

“When we do not expect anything we can be ourselves. That is our way, to live fully in each moment of time.”

Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary

Shikantaza: Living Fully In Each Moment (page 4)
Not Always So, practicing the true spirit of Zen (2002)

“We celebrate the past to awaken the future.”

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

"Remarks at the 25th Anniversary of the Signing of the Social Security Act," Hyde Park, New York (14 August 1960) http://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Quotations.aspx; Box 910, Senate Speech Files, John F. Kennedy Papers, Pre-Presidential Papers, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library
1960