“Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”
Walker Percy book The Second Coming
The Second Coming (1980)
Upon hearing about the construction of the Berlin Wall, as quoted in "Savage century" in "The Sunday Times (28 May 2006) http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/non-fiction/article724547.ece <br class="br">Attributed
“Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”
Walker Percy book The Second Coming
The Second Coming (1980)
“Feeling too much is a hell of a lot better than feeling nothing.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Midnight Bayou
Robert Anton Wilson (1932–2007) American author and polymath
rawilson.com website/blog entry (mid 1990s)
“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”
Robert Redford (1936) actor and film director from the United States
“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
Jordan Peterson (1962) Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology
Other
“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
Variant: Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Source: Paradise Lost
“To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”
John Milton book Paradise Lost
i.262-263
Paradise Lost (1667)
Timothy McVeigh (1968–2001) American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
Dead Man Talking http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/apr/22/mcveigh.usa, The Observer (April 22, 2001) <br class="br">2000s