Something Terrible Quotes

51 quotes by 47 authors

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. — E. M. Forster
One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew… — Salman Rushdie
Taking oneâ€™s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around… — Daniel Handler
Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be… — Marguerite Duras
What this country needs... what this great land of ours needs is something to happen to it. Something ferocious and tragic, like what happened to… — William Styron
Memory is a slippery thing. When something terrible happens to you, like the loss of someone you love...memory can turn into a soft blanket that… — Kathi Appelt
It touched me to be trusted with something terrible. — Elizabeth Kostova
Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then itâ€™s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What… — Libba Bray
I feel like there's something terrible and wonderful and amazing that's just beyond my grasp. I have dreams about it. I do dream, by the… — Michael Cunningham
We all have that moment in life when something terrible happens for the first time. Something so unexpected, so awful, that it takes the magic… — Robin Parrish
My father was one of those men who sit in a room and you can feel it: the simmer, the sense of some unpredictable force… — John Burnside
There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just crying about something terrible that has happened, but… — Daniel Handler
When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways… — Christina Baker Kline
I want to cry because something terrible happened, and I saw it, and I could not see a way to mend it. — Veronica Roth
Because thatâ€™s how it works after something terrible has happened. You know this is true if something terrible has ever happened to you. A thousand… — Deb Caletti
She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no… — Maggie Stiefvater
Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to. — Jodi Picoult
It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult. — Daniel Handler
When I did see the story of Persephone, I was really drawn to it. Persephone, the goddess of spring, was kept from Olympus by her… — Meg Cabot
When we die, our souls still live. If you are a gangster or a bastard or a crook, your soul inhabits a donkey or something… — Mohamed Al-Fayed

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