Quotes About Terrible

Somewhere at the back of my head I heard a click, tiny and irrevocable. Memory magnifies it to a wrenching, echoing crack, but the truth is that it was the very smallness that made it so terrible.

Ah, no wonder the men of Troy and Argives under arms have suffered years of agony all for her, for such a woman. Beauty, terrible beauty! —The Iliad, Homer, TRANSLATED BY ROBERT FAGLES

Vous savez, Miss Jarmond, faire revivre le passé n'es pas chose facile. On a parfois des surprises désagréables. La vérité est plus terrible que l'ignorance.

More than any other art form I know of in America, country music speaks of the true relationship between the American male and the American female... Terrible and impossible.

I'd never yell, "Good luck!" at anybody. It sounds terrible, when you think about it.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms -hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.

In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.

It was a terrible thing for a girl to learn. That status is more important than feelings

Forgiveness doesn't mean you forget, or you stop wishing that you can change the past. Mainly it means that you accept the idea that you're not perfect, because no one is perfect. And terrible things can happen to anyone.

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

The idea of a utopian state on earth, perhaps modeled on some heavenly ideal, is very hard to efface and has led people to commit terrible crimes in the name of the ideal.

It can be a terrible knowledge. To know you are without any delusions or sympathy is a moment of revelation that no one experiences unscathed.

I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and grandiose precisely because all the cliches intertwine in an unrealistic way and you can't disentangle them. But when you actually live a cliche, it feels brand new, and you are unashamed.

Into the echo chamber of his own mind, where he was always able to find a justification for the most terrible actions.

I had been imagining what war was like - everything on fire, children crying, cats running about, and when we got to Stalingrad it really turned out to be like that, only more terrible.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.

When infinity opens to us, terrible indeed is the closing of the gate behind.

It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.

Nothing could be so poignant and so terrible as this face, wherein was displayed all that may be designated as the evil of the good.

In the moment when the eyes of the two men met, Javert, without having moved or made the least gesture, became hideous. No human emotion can wear an aspect so terrible as that of jubilation. He had the face of a fiend who has found the victim he thought he had lost.

Darkness cold isolation got inside him in a terrible way and turned him into one of the many wild animals that populate a place