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“Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To loose good dayes, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with feare and sorrow.”

Littles Long Might Night Hell Sorrow Waste Speed Good Day Discontent Morrow Wooing Pensive Long Nights Suing

Book:The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser

Source: The Canterbury Tales and Faerie Queene: With Other Poems of Chaucer and Spenser

“In this life our sorrows are either not very long or not very great because nature either overcomes them by habits or puts an end to them by sinking under their weight. But in hell the torments cannot be overcome by habit, for while they are of terrible intensity they are at the same time of continual variety, each pain, so to speak, taking fire from another and re-endowing that which has enkindled it with a still fiercer flame.”

Long Stills Ends Pain Speak Hell Fire Habit Terrible Sorrow Overcoming Weight Variety This Life Flames Intensity Torment Sinking

Book:The Best of James Joyce

Source: The Best of James Joyce

“My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.”

Hell Too Much Sky Atheism Childhood Sorrow Angry Positive Atheism Ghost Satan Dread Deities Deep Sorrow Whooping Cough Colic

Author:George Eliot

“A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.”

Ends Light Sides Darkness Hell Sorrow Sight Rounds Horrible Flames Torture Visible Regions Shade Woe Dungeons Furnaces Paradise Lost Book 9 Paradise Lost Book 1 Doleful

Author:John Milton

“Would that God would make hell so real to us that we cannot rest; heaven so real that we must have men there, Christ so real that our supreme motive and aim shall be to make the Man of Sorrows the Man of Joy by the conversion to him of many.”

Men Real Joy Heaven Christ Hell He Man Sorrow Aim Missions Supreme Conversion Motive Missionary Missionary Life

Author:Hudson Taylor

“Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.”

Happens Happiness Hell Sadness Sorrow Hardship

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity, infernal paradise, and celestial hell - in short, harmony of opposite yearnings, sorrowful laughter, soft diamond.”

Love Pain Love Is Pleasure Hell Sorrow Laughter Opposites Harmony Insanity Paradise Yearning Diamond Sweetness Torment Desirable Celestial Sorrowful

Author:Umberto Eco

“In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.”

Hard Helping Memories Morning Darkness Hell Regret Sorrow Drink Kicks Going Away Away From You

Book:The Long-Legged Fly

Source: The Long-Legged Fly

“I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.”

Ideas Would Be Beautiful Heaven Poor Powerful Secret Wonder Hell Sorrow Members Filled Drinking Ugly Wealthy Stomach Disorder Vacuums Booze Best Family

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961