Frightful Quotes

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There is in me an anarchy and frightful disorder. Creating makes me die a thousand deaths, because it means making order, and my entire being… — Albert Camus
Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was… — Jacques Charles
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be… — Anton Webern
If you want war, nourish a doctrine. Doctrines are the most frightful tyrants to which men ever are subject... — William Graham Sumner
Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others. — Mignon McLaughlin
With poverty everything becomes frightful. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein
In libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrantly… — Marquis de Sade
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition… — John Maynard Keynes
The fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
A lot of celebrities just want money, fame, power, fancy cars, houses all over the world and have people BOW DOWN to them. To me,… — Shirley Manson
They yell at me to be dignified. But what are the dignified people like? The people who are held up as examples of me? They… — Clara Bow
We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE… — Orlando Figes
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
Surrealism does not allow those who devote themselves to it to forsake it whenever they like. There is every reason to believe that it acts… — Andre Breton
Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it… — Pope Francis
How could the human mind progress, while tormented with frightful phantoms, and guided by men, interested in perpetuating its ignorance and fears? Man has been… — Baron d'Holbach
Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's… — Thomas More
O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a… — Fernando de Rojas

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