“If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one’s promises.”
Source: The Tides of Time (1984), Chapter 11 (p. 202)
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“One must live with all, e'en if life be hell: Crime makes shame, not monetary stricture”
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Lysistrata (411 BC)
“Perhaps the promise of phallus is always dissatisfying in some way.”
"The Lesbian Phallus and the Morphological Imaginary" (1993), later published in The Judith Butler Reader (2004) edited by Sarah Salih with Judith Butler
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres (1904)
“Life without absorbing occupation is hell — joy consists in forgetting life.”
The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927)
“Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after”
“Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.”
As quoted in In Passing: Condolences and Complaints on Death, Dying, and Related Disappointments (2005) by Jon Winokur, p. 144