When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.
I've gone through hell and back.
The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
I'm so close to Heaven, this Hell cannot be mine.
How can you be in hell while you are in my heart?