“Catch that last episode of Doctor Who? Oh, right. You were trudging through the Pit of Eternal Damnation!”

— Rick Riordan, book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

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American writer 1964

Ali book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha

“Men who had made five thousand, year before last, and ten thousand last year, were urging on nerve-yelping bodies and parched brains so that they might make twenty thousand this year; and the men who had broken down immediately after making their twenty thousand dollars were hustling to catch trains, to hustle through the vacations which the hustling doctors had ordered.”

Sinclair Lewis book Babbitt

Babbitt (1922), Ch. 12

“What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy?”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance? IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier Le Spleen de Paris (1862)

“What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”

Charles Baudelaire book Le Spleen de Paris

IX: "Le Mauvais Vitrier" http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Petits_Po%C3%A8mes_en_prose_-_IX._Le_Mauvais_Vitrier (fr) Mais qu'importe l'éternité de la damnation à qui a trouvé dans une seconde l'infini de la jouissance? Le spleen de Paris (1862) Variant: What matters an eternity of damnation to someone who has found in one second the infinity of joy? Source: Paris Spleen

“Ah! I would be a Doctor! (…) Ah! Doctor! Doctor! Walking through the roads, through the streets, though the squares, through the rooms, receiving all the honors: "Doctor, what have you done today? How are you, doctor?"”

Lima Barreto (1881–1922) Brazilian writer

This feeling was simply divine!
Recordações do Escrivão Isaias Caminha (1909)

“Oh, that's a catch!”

Joe Buck (1969) American sportscaster

His reaction after seeing a replay of New England Patriots WR Julian Edelman's miracle catch in the 4th quarter with three Atlanta Falcons' defenders around him after the throw was originally tipped and bounced off of a defender's leg in the 4th quarter of Super Bowl LI.
2010s

“Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.”

Francine Rivers book As Sure as the Dawn

Source: As Sure as the Dawn