“The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
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Arsène Wenger (1949) French footballer and manager
On Arsenal's summer, (2011) http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/14859401 <br class="br">Arsenal (1996–present)
“I said one day that Dole had a temper, and he got madder than hell. He has one. He has a mean one.”
Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician
Washington Post interview (1994)
“[One] must look into hell before one has any right to speak of heaven.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Letter to Colette O'Niel, October 23, 1916; published in The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: The Public Years, 1914-1970, p. 87
1910s
“Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.”
A. J. Cronin book The Keys of the Kingdom
Source: The Keys of the Kingdom (1941), p. 207
“To live a life of truth one has to suffer, but must suffer cheerfully”
Morarji Desai (1896–1995) Former Indian Finance Minister, Freedom Fighters, Former prime minister
Morarji Desai speaks about life and celibacy
“She had already been to hell. One prayer more or less wouldn’t make any difference.”
Kameron Hurley (1980) American writer
Source: God’s War (2011), Chapter 1 (p. 6).
“When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
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The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)