Terrible Quotes

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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply… — Flannery O'Connor
What truth? You see where truth is, and where untruth is, but I seem to have lost my sight and see nothing. You boldly settle… — Anton Chekhov
I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there… — Neil Gaiman
So the Midwest nourishes us [...] and presents us with the spectacle of a land and a people completed and certain. And so we run… — Annie Dillard
Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to… — Libba Bray
In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil.… — Vasily Grossman
Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private room. "And that cursed lie; which showed… — Elizabeth Gaskell
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find… — Cornelia Funke
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and… — Umberto Eco
To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. — Soren Kierkegaard
And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it… — William Goldman
During the terrible years of the Yekhov terror I spent seventeen months in the prison queues in Leningrad. One day someone ‘identified’ me. Then a… — Anna Akhmatova
This is the gift of your species and this is the danger, because you do not choose to control your imaginings. You imagine wonderful things… — Michael Crichton
Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without… — Ron Paul
There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor. — John Cheever
I come from the South and I know what war is, for I have seen its terrible wreckage and ruin. It is easy for me… — Woodrow Wilson
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there."… — Megan Whalen Turner
That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and… — C.S. Lewis
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly. — Alice Walker
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
All assassins had a full-length mirror in their rooms, because it would be a terrible insult to anyone to kill them when you were badly… — Terry Pratchett
If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose… — Pope Benedict XVI
He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness. — Martin Amis
I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful and… — Melody Beattie

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