Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 271 authors

Those who have prophesied dreadful consequences as a result of the greater sexual freedom which the young assert - unwanted babies, venereal disease and so… — Colin Ward
The truth is rarely as dreadful or as terrifying as what one imagines. — Hallie Ephron
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant... — Gautama Buddha
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles
Under any religion, the preestablished impersonal code transcends the right of the individual to explore, experience, and marvel at the mysteries of his own life… — Gerry Spence
How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! — Sophocles
As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a… — Phil Foglio
Composers aren't daring enough. They're afraid of that sacred idol called 'common sense', which is the most dreadful thing I know - after all, it's… — Claude Debussy
All travellers who had preceded me into the Barren Grounds had relied on the abundant game, and in consequence suffered dreadful hardships; in some cases… — Ernest Thompson Seton
The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas. — Boris Johnson
Woe to those who lead idle lives. Idleness is a dreadful illness and must be cured in childhood. If it is not cured then, it… — Carlo Collodi
So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in… — Soren Kierkegaard
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of… — Mark Lynas
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to… — Otto Dix
There are dreadful punishments enacted against thieves, but it were much better to make such good provisions by which every man might be put in… — Thomas More
There is that kind of happiness. There is the love and marriage and family kind of happiness, which is exceedingly boring to describe but nonetheless… — P.J. O'Rourke
An oyster leads a dreadful but exciting life. — M.F.K. Fisher
Instead of looking at books and pictures about the New Testament I looked at the New Testament. There I found an account, not in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is dreadful is that the world… — Ford Madox Ford
The dreadful burden of having nothing to do. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

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