Terrors Quotes
114 quotes by 104 authors
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The loss of Eden is personally experienced by every one of us as we leave the wonder and magic and also the pains and terrors…
— Dennis Potter
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The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon Hell and Damnation-upon an attempt to scare people into being decent…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . .…
— Ellen Glasgow
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Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of…
— David Seabury
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Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the…
— Winston Churchill
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What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The biggest thing this has in common with almost all of our records is the dualities are still there. We kind of stripped down the…
— Patterson Hood
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Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety…
— Sam Keen
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There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does…
— Robert Goolrick
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Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before…
— Arthur Helps
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Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.
— Calvin Miller
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What is life when you come to think upon it, but a most excellent, accurately set, infinitely complicated machine for turning fat playful puppies into…
— Isak Dinesen
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Wave after wave has brought to our shores beautiful and mysterious treasures from unknown worlds: figurines, animals, fetishes, masks, ceremonial or useful objects. They are…
— Dominique de Menil
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more…
— Mark Twain
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Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.
— Robin Boyd
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of…
— J C Ryle
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When it comes to spiritual teachers, there are those safe, gentle, consoling, soothing, caring; and there are the outlaws, the living terrors, the Rude Boys…
— Ken Wilber
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Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more…
— Mark Twain
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Choosing to live in narrow spaces leads to form of mental agoraphobia and that brings its own terrors. I think the willfully unimaginative see more…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Men ought to know that from nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by…
— Hippocrates
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