@JoyceCarolOates One is reminded irresistibly of Lucifer in Paradise Lost, a figure who carries his own hell within him. Being himself is punishment enough. https://t.co/4i5JnjbvFI
@JoyceCarolOates One is reminded irresistibly of Lucifer in Paradise Lost, a figure who carries his own hell within him. Being himself is punishment enough. https://t.co/4i5JnjbvFI
āThe mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heavān of Hell, a Hell of Heavān.ā
V 254-255, Paradise Lost by John Milton
ā The way you choose to suffer is uniquely yours: āThe fact that Iām me and no one else is one of my greatest assetsā¦ emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independentā ā Haruki Murakami
āSelf-love is hell; for, carried to its ultimate conclusion, self-love signifies the end of all joy and all meaning. Hell is not other people; hell is myself, cut off from others in self-centeredness.ā
- Kallistos Ware