Awful Quotes

1118 Awful quotes by 901 unique authors

Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my… — Sabrina Jeffries
In NY sensuality completely turns into sexuality - no objects for the senses to respond to, no beautiful river, houses, people. Awful smells of the… — Susan Sontag
[A]nd soon now we shall go out of the house and go into the convulsion of the world, out of history into history and the… — Robert Penn Warren
Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds… — J R Ward
It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to… — Corita Kent
I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy. — David Thewlis
Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy.... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me! — MaryJanice Davidson
Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of… — Flann O'Brien
There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. — Maggie Stiefvater
it’s awful. No privacy, no secrets. Everything you’re ashamed of, laid out for everyone to see. — Stephenie Meyer
There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something… — Stephen Dobyns
I had learned from my reading that you can do really awful things when you are bored, things that are bound to make you miserable.… — Sam Savage
People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places… — Kurt Vonnegut
I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're… — Arthur Miller
Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa. — Ernest Hemingway
The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space. — Carl Sagan
The newspaper stories were like dreams to us, bad dreams dreamt by others. How awful, we would say, and they were, but they were awful… — Margaret Atwood
If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste. — Grace Metalious
This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be… — Alice Hoffman
There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger. — Maggie Stiefvater
In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the… — James Frey
I still felt like I might hurl, and I thought about how awful that would be in midair. — James Patterson
There were times . . . when it occurred to me that I was repeating my mother's life. Usually this thought struck me as funny.… — Stephen King
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be… — Natsuo Kirino
Marriage is so unlike everything else. There is something even awful in the nearness it brings. Even if we loved someone else better than -… — George Eliot

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