Ghastly Quotes

98 Ghastly quotes by 85 unique authors

I think marriage is ghastly. — Rupert Everett
One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly… — D. H. Lawrence
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of… — Anne Roiphe
As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly. — Kristin Scott Thomas
...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And they lynx which dwelleth forever in the… — Edgar Allan Poe
This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde
The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the… — Terry Pratchett
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive… — Evelyn Waugh
But first, on earth as vampire sent, Thy corse shall from its tomb be rent, Then ghastly haunt thy native place, And suck the blood… — Lord Byron
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist. — Ilona Andrews
Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony… — Douglas Adams
I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm… — Dorothy L. Sayers
I realized I was going to get through this disappointing service, and anyway, you have to be somewhere: better here, where I have heard truth… — Anne Lamott
As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling, the ghastly or… — Mervyn Peake
Never did tombs look so ghastly white. Never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom. Never did tree or… — Bram Stoker
Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid… — Edgar Allan Poe
I must be besotted,” he said evenly. “I have the imbecilic idea that you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen. Except for your coiffure,” he… — Loretta Chase
People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping… — Franz Kafka
How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all. — Gail Carriger
LOVE'S SECRET Never seek to tell thy love, Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind doth move Silently, invisibly. I told my… — William Blake
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination — Derek Landy
What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in… — Albert Camus

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