“Hell is being alone.”
The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
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“Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.”
Source: The Lonely Dead (2004), Ch. 21
“Ruling hell might be better than being a subject in hell, but not by much.”
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“Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone.”
As quoted in Low Man On A Totem Pole (1941) by Harry Allen Smith, p. 185
Variant: Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone?
“Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he's there alone.”
Variant: Even the devil may cry when he looks around hell and realizes that he’s there alone.
Source: Devil May Cry
“It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.”
Interviewed in the documentary series The Civil War, 1990
Context: Any understanding of this nation has to be based, and I mean really based, on an understanding of the Civil War. I believe that firmly. It defined us. The Revolution did what it did. Our involvement in European wars, beginning with the First World War, did what it did. But the Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things. And it is very necessary, if you are going to understand the American character in the twentieth century, to learn about this enormous catastrophe of the mid-nineteenth century. It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads.
“I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”
“Peace is only better than war if peace is not hell too. War being hell makes sense.”
The Second Coming (1980)
“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)