Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 263 authors

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams. — Dorothy Day
...in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the… — Daniel Defoe
O Space and Time and stars at strife, How dreadful your infinity! Shrined by your termless trinity, How strange, how terrible, is life! (â€œThe Testimony… — George Sterling
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — Friedrich Nietzsche
Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful… — C.S. Lewis
This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to… — E. M. Forster
Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who… — Stephen Dobyns
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell… — Frederic Chopin
Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs… — Erin Hunter
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It… — Oscar Wilde
Love can make us do dreadful things. — Ann Aguirre
It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run… — Henri Nouwen
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my… — Vladimir Nabokov
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation. — Ray Bradbury
But the things is, you see, that two people can never actually become one no matter how close they are. And it would not be… — Mary Balogh
Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to… — Harper Lee
... in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests… — Jean Webster
Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same: the gnawing, excruciating, incessant pain; that awareness of life irrevocably passing but… — Leo Tolstoy
I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous… — William Shakespeare
Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everyone is suffering from it, so it… — Eckhart Tolle

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