Dreadful Quotes

340 quotes by 271 authors

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness. — Elizabeth Kim
The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-Ã -brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above… — Oscar Wilde
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to… — John Updike
What else is there to make life tolerable? We stand on the shore of an ocean, crying to the night and to emptiness. Sometimes a… — Bertrand Russell
It is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out. — Logan Pearsall Smith
All things are taken from us, and become Portions and parcels of the dreadful past. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains. — Isaac Watts
One didn't really believe till one saw it demonstrated that giving oneself up completely to art, to emotion, to enjoyment, without planning for the future… — Edmund Wilson
My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. — Horatio Nelson
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing. — Amy Sherman-Palladino
Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this… — Chloe Sevigny
I'm terrible as I never take my make-up off at night, which I know is really dreadful. Whenever I'm out partying I just can't be… — Carol Vorderman
"Take my own father! You know what he said in his last moments? On his deathbed, he defied me to name a man who had… — Mary Lavin
Sometimes I am a little unkind to all my many friends in education ... by saying that from the time it learns to talk every… — Hermann Bondi
The only way to go on holiday is with your expectations at ground level. Convince yourself before you go that the weather's going to be… — Jenny Eclair
A woman holds dreadful power over a man who is in love with her but she should realize that the quality and force of his… — John Steinbeck
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. — Stephen Ambrose
I just think my body can't handle it any more. I did try a little drink a while back, and I was actually physically ill.… — Ronnie Wood
I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was… — Amanda Burton
My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted. — Yancy Butler

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