Frightful Quotes

87 Frightful quotes by 76 unique authors

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. — Anatole France
A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt… — George Crabbe
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. — Henry Ford
It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live. — Victor Hugo
To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter. — Francoise Sagan
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful. — Queen Victoria
The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has… — George Washington
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Because we have for millenia made moral, aesthetic, religious demands on the world, looked upon it with blind desire, passion or fear, and abandoned ourselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. — Arthur C. Clarke
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,… — Alexander Pope
There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a thing nine hundred… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing… — H P Lovecraft
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made us. It is… — Alfred de Musset
Time, of course, topples everyone in its path equally- the way that driver beats his old horse until it dies. But the thrashing we receive… — Haruki Murakami
Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when… — Hermann Hesse
Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein
A starving child is a frightful sight. A starving vampire, even worse. — Anne Rice
They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear.… — Stephen Dobyns
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No… — Michael Crichton
Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see… — Victor Hugo
My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I thinkâ€¦ and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment… — Jean-Paul Sartre
God is frightful, God is great--you pick. I choose this: God is in the details, the completely unnecessary miracles sometimes tossed up as stars to… — Barbara Kingsolver

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