Quotes About Terrible

Civil War general Robert E. Lee said famously that it was a good thing war was so terrible, "otherwise we should grow too fond of it.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet.

Loneliness is terrible, of course, but being betrayed by the mask of one's fellow man is much worse.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.

No sé por qué no puedo amar a la Naturaleza; tan terrible, tan hosca y magnífica como es a veces... Yo creo que he perdido el gusto por lo colosal. El tictac de mis relojes me despierta los sentidos más que el viento en los desfiladeros... Yo estoy cerrado —concluyó.

Every once in a very long while, Lord Tywin Lannister would actually threaten to smile; he never did, but the threat alone was terrible to behold.

Ghosts," Irri muttered. "Terrible ghosts. We must not stay here, Khaleesi, this is their place." "I fear no ghosts.

Many called her beautiful. She was not beautiful. She was red, and terrible and red.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

Do you really think... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment... there is no weakness in that.

He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he paid for the privilage. Man, Wrath sure had his own demons, and they were no walk in the park, but he wouldn't have wanted Vishous's cross to bear. Seeing what had yet to come was a terrible burden. -Wrath's thoughts

it is well that war is so terrible, because otherwise people would grow too fond of it

The wasteland that is your memory now comes under the absolute dictatorship of idols too terrible to mention.

The most metal? Some would say Slayer, but I think they're a dreadful band. Unbelievably boring. Terrible. Apparently it's not metal to say that, but it's a personal opinion.

When an actor asks you to read his script, your heart sinks. The number of scripts I've been given by actors that are so unbelievably terrible!

War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

It's a good thing war is so terrible or else we'd get to liking it too much.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.