Beyond good and evil Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

— William Wordsworth

Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.

— Steve Allen

“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who know that he is going under in his own eyes, and in…

— James Baldwin

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even…

— Stendhal

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

— Joe Hill

“It's dreadful, isn't it?" "What? Death?" "Yes. It makes everything else seem so horribly trivial. He doesn't look human. When you look at him…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of…

— Joanna Baillie

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people.

— Wole Soyinka

Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse.

— Ernest Hemingway

“But theoretical, imagined suffering is not what distresses a man and destroys his peace of mind. Only what you have seen with pitying eyes…

— Stefan Zweig

Horrific things should be presented as horrific.

— Jeremy Podeswa