Quotes About Awful

And if his cruelty had the sharp edge of despair, if slights and taunts were all that fell from his tongue now, what did it matter? He had always been awful. Now he was just worse.

Why was I cruel to Folk? Why was I awful to you? Because I could be. Because I liked it. Because, for a moment, when I was at my worst, I felt powerful, and most of the time, I felt powerless, despite being a prince and the son of the High King of Faerie.

Terrible, dreadful, blasted awful kids. They've all got a darkness inside them. They've all got the capacity of evil.

When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.

The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.

Pure talent and charisma and like gods they were terrible together. Awful. A gorgeous nightmare.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

Dalliance!" He was offended. He stood back. "What, do you think I am a philanderer? My intention is not to dally with you, Cat! What an awful word - it reminds me of those sentimental songs about maids and soldiers kissing at the garden gate.

This is the worst day of my life'. I groaned and put my head in my hands. 'You can't possibly know that. You might have something really awful going to happen to you later on. All your children burned to death or your nose cut off in a revolving door'.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely unentertaining.

Whether keenly striking or laughably awful, contemporary art is rarely uninteresting.

An awful sense of her deadness, of her soul-blighting selfishness, began to dawn upon her as something monstrous out of dim, gray obscurity.

Finally, she grew quiet. After that, coherent thought. With this, stalked through her a cold, bloody rage; Hours of this; a period of introspection; a space of retrospection; then a mixture of both. Out of this, an awful calm.

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

Was he some test from the Ministry of Pain? Some awful assessment, and if so, had she passed or failed?

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

I came here to escape. You know that, I told him. Why didn't you rescue me from those awful people? I hate people. I told you they wouldn't snub you. I only want to be left in peace. They can't do that. It's snubs or kisses with that bunch. I guessed it would be kisses today.

Los Angeles, the sun shines a lot, and it's blue, and there's palm trees; it's a bit like Sydney, I guess, but the underbelly is a vicious, mean, cruel, awful place.

Do away with anger as anger is poison, it will eat away your very essential. Do away with fear, fear is awful, face it. Memories are sweet. Cherish them.

Grandma laughed dryly. "I think we old people sometimes forget that childhood isn't all fun and games. You're coping with a lot of things right now. But hurting other people because inside you're hurting yourself is no solution to anything. I don't think you are a bad person at heart, Grant. But if you feel that impulse again you can't act on it. It doesn't matter how righteous you are if you let yourself do awful things.

You go to someone and you think, "I'll tell him this." But why? The impulse is that the telling is going to relieve you. And that's why you feel awful later—you've relieved yourself, and if it truly is tragic and awful, it's not better, it's worse—the exhibitionism inherent to a confession has only made the misery worse.

And that was when she had one single, awful realization. It's not a doll. And against all her best intentions, she began to scream and couldn't stop.