Hellish

Howard Jacobson

British Novelist

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to find. Jane Austen was made of strong stuff. She was too satiric for D. H. Lawrence's taste and too unforgiving for Kingsley Amis's, but you would still not call her hellish.

Tamzin Outhwaite

English Actress

The idea of going back to school and revising for exams would be hellish. As an actor, my form of revising is learning scenes, but to start going through biology, chemistry, and all of those sciences would be just a nightmare.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

French Athlete

It's something powerful to receive all this love. In the street. In Congo, everywhere. But it's also hellish at the same time. When all that comes at you from one day to the next, it's really destabilizing.

Maya Angelou

American Poet

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.

Elio Di Rupo

Being the chief minister of a regional government is just a pastime compared with the hellish job of being prime minister of two different communities brought together.

Kurt Elling

American Musician

It must be a hellish thing to know what's possible in music, to be hearing things all the time and not have an appropriate outlet for them.

Raoul Vaneigem

Belgian Philosopher

Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete.

Mandy Patinkin

American Actor

The real world is far more hellish for all us than any fictional representation of it.

Nicholas Breton

English Poet

Thus much for thy assurance know; a hollow friend is but a hellish foe.

David Sheff

American Author

After a hellish decade, my son got and stayed sober.