Awful Quotes
1118 Awful quotes by 901 unique authors
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Wrong takes an awful long time to be proven, in my experience.
— Gregory Maguire
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It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love…
— Wayne Dyer
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When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real.…
— Nancy Werlin
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It's awful to be rich and mind-boggingly handsome and have women fawn over you. My heart bleeds for you. Poor dear, how do you manage?
— Ilona Andrews
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
— Michael Caine
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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
— Robert Cormier
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I suppose I could let bygones be bygones, forgive and forget, yadda yadda. But where's the fun in that? These pretty little bitches got everything…
— Sara Shepard
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I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
— Sylvia Plath
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If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after…
— Darren Shan
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I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the…
— Libba Bray
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Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat.…
— Kat Richardson
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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and…
— Anne Sexton
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I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and…
— P. C. Cast
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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…
— Philip Roth
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How sad it was, Carmen thought, that you acted awful when you were desperately sad and hurt and wanted to be loved. How tragic then,…
— Ann Brashares
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I knit the afternoon away. I knit reasons for Elijah to come back. I knit apologies for Emma. I knit angry knots and slipped stitches…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
— Sarah Dessen
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You know, I wouldn’t have done this a month ago. I wouldn’t have done it then. Then I was avoiding. Now I’m just waiting. Things…
— Martin Amis
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Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people…
— Susan Minot
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This is awful. I don't know what's going to happen to me or to anyone else in the world.
— Raymond Carver
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I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely…
— Peter Cameron
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Do you ever get the feeling that something awful might happen?' James asked me. . . I sat up. 'I'm the awful thing that happens.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.
— P D Ouspensky
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If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light…
— Helen Keller
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So what if Brian made me feel like fireworks were going off inside me. He could also make me feel like a big fat clod…
— Catherine Gilbert Murdock
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