Terminal Quotes
103 Terminal quotes by 89 unique authors
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There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources,…
— Nelson Mandela
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I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That's the two categories. The horrible are like, I don't know, terminal cases,…
— Woody Allen
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote…
— Tony Kushner
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I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it!…
— Dan Millman
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In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases
— John Irving
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I picked up one of the books and flipped through it. Don't get me wrong, I like reading. But some books should come with warning…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Beware the short terminal guy with nothing to lose.
— Chris Crutcher
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In the world according to her father, Jenny Garp knew, we must have energy. Her famous grandmother, Jenny Fields, once thought of us as Externals,…
— John Irving
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So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I’m dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are…
— Steven Wright
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We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the…
— Thomas Pynchon
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Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach
— Hunter S. Thompson
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It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood,"…
— Cassandra Clare
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Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It…
— Iain Banks
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The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover…
— Lev Grossman
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...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart…
— Sherman Alexie
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We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.
— Nora Roberts
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Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute…
— William S. Burroughs
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The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
— Alain de Botton
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During the air war of 1944, a four-man combat crew on a B-17 bomber took a vow to never abandon one another no matter how…
— Sebastian Junger
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Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
— John Cleese
Who Wrote These Terminal Quotes
89 authors contributed a total of 103 Terminal Quotes, led by these top contributors: