“If a man were forced to sit all day long at table, he would get a disgust of the viands [meals] before him. If one were made to sleep day and night for a whole week in the softest and most comfortable bed, how long would the time seem... Now look down into the abyss of hell, and there thou wilt see thousands and thousands of these unhappy creatures in the lake of fire and torment. Many of them have already spent twenty, a hundred, a thousand, even five thousand years in this dreadful state of suffering. But what is before them? Not five thousand years more, not a hundred thousand years more… they must endure it forever and ever.” (Fr. Martin von Cochem, The Four Last Things, pp. 168-169)