“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

— Emily St. John Mandel , book Station Eleven

Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 23 (p. 144)

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American writer 1979

Glen Duncan book I, Lucifer

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“Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long Absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: Absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.”

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) eighteenth century English poet

Letter, written in collaboration with Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, to Jonathan Swift, December 14, 1725.

“You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”

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“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

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“I don't care If I go to hell as long as the people I serve will live in paradise.”

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"Duterte: Look ma, cheap shoes no socks" http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/710288/duterte-simple-lifestyle-has-served-me-well-in-govt' (August 5 2015)

“The problem in my life and other people's lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.”

Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant

“Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.”

Ava Gardner (1922–1990) American actress

Source: Ava: My Story

“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”

Hilary Mantel book Wolf Hall

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“You might have deemed our long gun-deck
Two hundred feet of hell.”

Henry Howard Brownell (1820–1872) American writer and historian

The River Fight (published 1864). Compare: "War is hell", attributed to William Tecumseh Sherman; "This is the soldier brave enough to tell, The glory-dazzled world that 'war is hell'", Henry van Dyke, On the St. Gaudens Statue of Sherman.

“Two evils, monstrous either one apart,
Possessed me, and were long and loath at going:
A cry of Absence, Absence, in the heart,
And in the wood the furious winter blowing.”

John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974) American poet

"Winter Remembered", line 1.
Chills and Fevers (1924)

“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”

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