David Oppong

“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
― John Dos Passos

“[T]he infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays

“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
― Betrand Russell