“This petty place cannot be Hell, Roadstrum? Ah, but it is my friend. That, you see, is the hell of it.”
Tiresias, Ch. 7
Space Chantey (1968)
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“I don't like to commit myself about Heaven and Hell, you see, I have friends in both places.”
“Ah, Tam! Ah! Tam! Thou'll get thy fairin!
In hell they'll roast you like a herrin!”
Source: Tam o' Shanter (1790), Line 201
“I love my enemies, but am hell on my friends.”
[The Book of Ammon, 1970, Hennacy, 205]
“We used to say
"Ah Hell, we're young"
But now we see that life is sad
And so is love.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
“May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.”
Que el cielo exista, aunque mi lugar sea el infierno.
"The Library of Babel" (1941)
Variants:
I cannot think it unlikely that there is such a total book on some shelf in the universe. I pray to the unknown gods that some man — even a single man, tens of centuries ago — has perused and read this book. If the honor and wisdom and joy of such a reading are not to be my own, then let them be for others. Let heaven exist, though my own place may be in hell. Let me be tortured and battered and annihilated, but let there be one instant, one creature, wherein thy enormous Library may find its justification.
May Heaven exist, even if our place is Hell.
"Deutsches Requiem". (Emece edition, 1974)