Terrible Quotes

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Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience. — Howard Zinn
I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste,in fear, and had brought about their own destruction — Lois Lowry
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what… — John O'Donohue
There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death. — C.S. Lewis
You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny. — Brandon Sanderson
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Blue as the evening sky, blue as cranesbill flowers, blue as the lips of drowned men and the heart of a blaze burning with too… — Cornelia Funke
The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. — Philip K. Dick
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away. — Oscar Wilde
I remember, in hot floods, the way he slept, still as death, with his face washed flat, stony as a carved tomb and exquisite. His… — Katherine Dunn
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead,… — Milan Kundera
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well… — Dave Eggers
Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.… — Sara Gruen
Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy
There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry… — Jeanne DuPrau
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons of different energies… — Jeanette Winterson
He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile. "There is only my kind." Bast… — Patrick Rothfuss
People are terrible. They can bear anything. Anything! People are hard and brutal. And everyone is disposable. Everyone! That's the lesson. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred de Vigny
The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. — Cormac McCarthy
Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles. — Nora Roberts
To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time… — Soren Kierkegaard
All men have parties and are pals who never let each other down. A pal can say terrible things which are forgotten the next day.… — Tove Jansson

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