Quote by Edward Abbey

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“of wretchedness and need,”

— A.W. Tozer

“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust, from whence he…

— Walter Scott

“Let not the general representation unto thyself of the wretchedness of this our mortal life, trouble thee.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“A procession of the damned: By the damned I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that science has excluded. Battalions…

— Charles Fort

“the pleasures of the damned are limited to brief moments of happiness: like eyes in the look of a dog, like a square of…

— Charles Bukowski

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery…

— John Bunyan

“Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish.”

— Mary Shelley

“There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad Humanity may assume the semblance of a Hell-but…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding

“Thrice damned she howls like Cerberus to the night Guarding virtues that lie like forgotten stains On oaken floors that pave the willow lined…

— Neil Leckman

“Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy.”

— Sylvain Reynard