“I would go to heaven, but I would take my hell; I would not go alone.”
Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
Voces (1943)
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Iría al paraíso, pero con mi infierno; solo, no.
Voces (1943)
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Italian Argentinian poet 1885–1968Related quotes

As quoted in Vietnam Past and Present: The North, ed. Andrew Forbes and David Henley (Cognoscenti Books, 2012)

Comments on his final election defeat (11 August 1835)
Variant: Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I will go to Texas.
As quoted in David Crockett: The Man and the Legend (1994) by James Atkins Shackford, Introduction, p. xi
Col. Crockett's Exploits and Adventures in Texas (1836)
Context: I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.

"Desmond Tutu Would Prefer Hell Over A Homophobic Heaven" at The Huffington Post (26 July 2013) http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/desmond-tutu-hell-homophobia_n_3661120.html
Context: I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this. I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. I am as passionate about this campaign as I ever was about apartheid. For me, it is at the same level.
“Quickly would I make my path even,
And by mere playing go to heaven.”
"Childhood".
Silex Scintillans (1655)
Context: I cannot reach it, and my striving eye
Dazzles at it, as at eternity. Were now that chronicle alive,
Those white designs which children drive,
And the thoughts of each harmless hour,
With their content too in my pow'r,
Quickly would I make my path even,
And by mere playing go to heaven.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 535.
A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 18
The Bank of Faith and Works United (1819)

“When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment?”

"Youngstown"
Song lyrics, The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)