Best Terrible Thing Lines

196 Terrible Thing quotes by 166 unique authors

I couldn't stop bawling, watching the towers come down. it was a terrible thing to happen. And a terrible thing to realize that I don't… — Randa Abdel-Fattah
but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane.… — Akira Kurosawa
It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? Or is it (as… — Kate DiCamillo
The terrible thing about love is that it takes away your safety net, your balancing pole. Even the tightrope you walk upon will disappear beneath… — Christopher Barzak
It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no… — Maggie O'Farrell
The men who committed the atrocities of September 11 were certainly not "cowards," as they were repeatedly described in the Western media, nor were they… — Sam Harris
For a moment she turned in a circle, staring at her hands, which she held high and useless, close to her breast. She bobbed and… — Peter S. Beagle
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than… — C.S. Lewis
It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all. — A A Milne
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone. — Oscar Wilde
Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing.… — Dylan Thomas
Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And… — Nancy Werlin
Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people… — Susan Minot
time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time. — Gosho Aoyama
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.… — Oscar Wilde
You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. — Oscar Wilde
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil. — Robert Cormier
You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt… — Stephen Fry
The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is… — Jhonen Vasquez
And so a person can never promise to love someone forever because you never know what might come up, what terrible thing the person you… — Anita Shreve
I strike fear into you because I am a man?" "It isn't funny." "I do not laugh. It is a sad thing, yes, that your… — Catherine Anderson
Edward's grief if you die will be a terrible thing. It will hurt him, a lot, and men like him never grieve alone. He will… — Laurell K. Hamilton
Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. — Terry Pratchett

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