He knows nothing about how this will all end, except that it will surely end. He tries to imagine himself into a future, somewhere past this point, but he cannot. There is nothing to do but to keep on existing, in this exact time and place. This is what hell must be like. Waiting without knowing. Not hell, but purgatory. Worse than hell. Aminatta Forna
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia.
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C.s. Lewis
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
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Aldous Huxley
Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it.
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Alysha Speer
Hell is truth seen too late.
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Thomas Hobbes
More Quotes By Aminatta Forna
A dread filled me, a dread unlike any I had ever felt. Not the terror of God, or his angels, but the sickly fear of man.
I learned about women -- how we are made into the women we've become, how we shape ourselves, how we shape each other.
If you want to know a country, read its writers.
Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?
The hollowness in his chest, the tense yearning, the loneliness he braces against, every morning until he can immerse himself in work and forget. Not love. Something else, something with a power that endures. Not love, but a memory of love.
