Evil is serene in its enormity. Evil is indifferent to argument or to compassion. It is not merely the absence of good; it is the absence of everything human, the black hole in a collapsed cosmos in which even the face of God is eternally invisible.
From this ultimate damnation there is no recourse. No light can penetrate the dense core of tangible darkness. Enfer c'est le n — Morris West, A View from the Ridge