Quote by Donna Tartt

“those awful things are survivable, because we are as indestructible as we believe ourselves to be.”

— John Green

“One of the few lessons I have learnt from studying people who do terrible things is that they are all too human. And that…

— Anonymous

“It's hard to grasp all the different things that are going on at one time, or that went on at one time.”

— Claire Messud

“SOMETIMES, WHEN SOMETHING TERRIBLE IS HAPPENING, I TRY MY DAMNEDEST TO CONCENTRATE ON THE MOST INCONSEQUENTIAL, UNRELATED DETAIL READILY AVAILABLE TO ME. A DETAIL…

— Kim Holden

“I seem to grasp at certain moments the nuance that divides bad from worse.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I cannot grasp all that I am.”

— Augustine

Some things are too terrible to be true.

— Bob Dylan

“Some things are impossible to tear yourself away from.”

— Gayle Forman

“Life hands us things we don't want. Nasty things. Terrible things. It's how we handle those things that matters. That's all.”

— Lisa Schroeder

“Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The vastest things are those we may not learn. We are not taught to die, nor to be born, Nor how to burn With…

— Mervyn Peake

“know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that.”

— David Clement-Davies