Terrible Quotes

2708 Terrible quotes by 1872 unique authors

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. — Frederick Buechner
It is useless for me to describe to you how terrible Violet, Klaus, and even Sunny felt in the time that followed. If you have… — Daniel Handler
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. — Anne Lamott
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the… — Per Petterson
A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
--Why are we fighting them? --They're mad. We're sane. --How do we know? --That we're sane? --Yes. --Am I sane? --To all appearances. --And you,… — Donald Barthelme
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
Zaphod Beeblebrox, adventurer, ex-hippie, good-timer (crook? quite possibly), manic self-publicist, terrible bad at personal relationships, often thought to be completely out to lunch. — Douglas Adams
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women… — Barbra Streisand
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake. — Michael Chabon
I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine,… — J D Salinger
The terrible tyranny of the majority. — Ray Bradbury
I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened. — Mark Twain
Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth,… — Anne Lamott
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—the long terrible story… — C.S. Lewis
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of… — Ted Dekker
It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the… — Victor Hugo
Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter’d in one day, and I the elder and more… — William Shakespeare
The Marquis sighed. "I thought it was just a legend," he said. "Like the alligators in the sewers of New York City." Old Bailey nodded,… — Neil Gaiman
Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when… — Dave Eggers
This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to… — Ursula K. Le Guin
The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried… — David McCullough
What makes this danger so terrible is that humans tip the balance of your world. No other species can make such a difference, for good… — T.A. Barron

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