Life Quote by Italo Calvino

“He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.”

— Félix J. Palma

“There is no paradise except that which we create in the great tomb of the churches. There is no hell, no inferno except the…

— Henri Barbusse

“Hell must be like... reminiscing about the good old days when we wished we were dead.”

— Samuel Beckett

“To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me.”

— David Sedaris

“Hell existed in the imagination of those who feared it, because of the guilt and shame they carried with them after death.”

— Andrea Barbosa

“It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.”

— Edmund White

“THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live.”

— Walter Mosley

“The present seemed suddenly strange to me, so trivial and distracted. I felt like one of those mythical heroes who fights his way back…

— Ransom Riggs

“Look into his mind, his universe. We may think it's sick, but for him, this place is a little slice of paradise. A place…

— Tess Gerritsen

“I had closed my eyes and seen a place I hadn’t known existed. There was no anger, no loneliness, no jagged icy fear gnawing…

— Aryn Kyle

“I look like hell.” He stood before her, angling his body away so that the burned side of his face still faced the stairs…

— Katy Regnery

“Hell was grey. Dim and lifeless... I felt numb and in pain at the same time and that was not supposed to happen in…

— J.M. Redmann