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Quotes About Terrible

You know humans have a bad reputation. Among the rest of us. "I've heard," Wilson said. That you're deceptive. That you'll go against your contracts and treaties. That you're terrified of all of us and your way of solving that problem is trying to destroy us all. "But on the bright side, we all have lovely singing voices," Wilson said.
~ John Scalzi
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
~ Edgar Wallace
And thou art terrible--the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction
~ Lois Lowry
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because actually deserve them? So now I take comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the Universe
~ Unknown
Every day brings new lessons and new possibilities. There is always a way to take the next step forward on the path you've chosen. Events may be terrible and inescapable at times, but you always have choice if not when, then how, you may endure and proceed onward.
~ Unknown
But there is edited every day in Paris, Balzac would tell us, a sort of spoken newspaper, more terrible than its printed rivals
~ Marcel Proust
It is often only for want of the creative spirit that we do not go far enough in suffering. And the most terrible reality brings us, at the same time as suffering, the joy of a beautiful discovery, for all that it does is to lend a new and explicit form to what we had long been turning over in our minds without suspecting
~ Marcel Proust
Yes, it's good to be able to block things out. But maybe the terrible images persist for a reason: to tell the truth. Which is a terrible and terribly important thing.
~ Unknown
Europe was a horrible place. There was nothing on TV. The food was terrible. And they don't even have ice. Who doesn't have ice?
~ Johnny Ramone
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.
~ Woody Allen
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
~ Oscar Wilde
Such meanness served up in the sweetest tones, and to someone whose need for love was terrible in its completeness.
~ Marisa de los Santos
I actually don't subscribe to the notion that comedy is easier than drama. When you're trying to be funny and you're not funny, that's really terrible. It's a horrible feeling.
~ Tom Hollander
If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.
~ John duover, Rites
How can love be frightening?" "When it consumes you. When it binds you to all other considerations. When you can no longer distinguish right from wrong, love becomes a terrible burden and it can destroy you as readily as it can save you." Catherine pondered the words carefully, then sighed. "I don't think I would ever want to be that much in love.
~ Unknown
This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn't help.
~ Martha Wells
I was still disoriented, and having a moment where I wondered if hey, maybe all the humans were right for once and this was a terrible idea.
~ Martha Wells
Tlacey bought us passage on a public shuttle," Rami told me. "That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.
~ Martha Wells
On the feed the humans settled some details of what I was designating as Operation Not Actually A Completely Terrible Plan.
~ Martha Wells
My human parts were experiencing a cold prickling that wasn't comfortable. This place was creepy. I reminded myself that the terrible thing that had most likely happened here was me. Somehow that didn't help.
~ Martha Wells
It was then that he gained the nickname adulescentulus carnifex: 'kid butcher' rather than enfant terrible.
~ Mary Beard
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else
~ Alphonse Karr