Terrors Quotes

114 quotes by 104 authors

The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world.… — Noy Holland
I very often have night terrors. Just think of the worst possible situation, and it's a regular thing for me. I've died in my sleep… — Julian Casablancas
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Not death itself, but only the moral preparation for it, holds terrors. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. — Tacitus
Many teenagers are tormented by terrors they deem private and personal. They do not know that their anxieties and doubts are universal. — Haim Ginott
Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply… — George Orwell
The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain. — Herman Melville
The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for… — Patrick Henry
In these dangerous times, where it seems the world is ripping apart at the seams, we can all learn how to survive from those who… — Jonathan Larson
One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone. — Jenny Holzer
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening shyness… — John Steinbeck
Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life,… — Bill Forsyth
It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought… — William James
This is a world in which each of us, knowing his limitations, knowing the evils of superficiality and the terrors of fatigue, will have to… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping… — Annie Besant
I find myself continually falling back into wounds, wishes, terrors I thought I had risen beyond. — Christian Wiman
Men who have lost their conviction of what is good and what is bad find themselves without a sextant to check their position by. We… — John Dos Passos
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease,… — John F. Kennedy

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