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Quotes About Dreadful

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
~ Horatio Nelson
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
~ Ernest Hemingway
the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.
~ Ernest Hemingway
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be bothered and now I am on 'Loose Women' that tends to be all the time. I hope next year holds even more parties for me.
~ Carol Vorderman
One of the children hanging about Pointed at the whole dreadful heap and smiled… There is something terrible about a child. Charlotte Mew In Nunhead Cemetery
~ Robert Galbraith
It's really dreadful,' she muttered to herself, 'the way all the creatures argue. It's enough to drive one crazy!' The
~ Lewis Carroll
what would become of me? They're dreadfully fond of beheading people here: the great wonder is, that there's any one left alive!
~ Lewis Carroll
Why you don't take soma when you have these dreadful ideas of yours. You'd forget all about them. And instead of feeling miserable, you'd be jolly.
~ Aldous Huxley
one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there…. So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many….
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
~ Doris Lessing
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
~ Dorothy Day
Love in action is harsh and dreadful when compared to love in dreams.
~ Dorothy Day
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life.
~ M. F. K. Fisher
I understand too well the dreadful act I'm going to commit, but my judgement can't check my anger, and that incites the greatest evils human beings do.
~ Euripides
Of most dreadful suffering, I am the cause.
~ Euripides
I'm a fearful person. I'm afraid of everything.
~ Kendra Wilkinson
If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible.
~ Gary Bettman
How can girls like to have lovers and refuse them? I think it's dreadful.
~ Louisa May Alcott
It's dreadful, but I can't scold him. He's so absent-minded and goodnatured, he lets those boys ride over him roughshod.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. It's so dreadful to be poor! sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls
~ Louisa May Alcott
So to be sick unto death is not to be able to die -- yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for you everything is lost, eternity does not acknowledge you, it never knew you, or, still more dreadful, it knows you as you are known, it manacles you to your self in despair.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Courage he acquires by learning to fear the still more dreadful.
~ Soren Kierkegaard