Awfulness Quote by Louise Doughty Download Open image “It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.” — Louise Doughty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Awfulness Cozy Feels Murder Reading
“Might it also be that creating narratives around murder allows a measure of comfort? Murder in the abstract is terrifying; in the details, you… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One's thoughts are one's most crucial adventures. Seriously and strongly and intently to contemplate doing murder is everyway more exciting, more romantic, more profoundly… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“There is nothing so bracing as planning a murder. I recommend it to the weak-willed and those with a leaky sense of self. It is fortifying as a drop of coagulant in a solution. I had planned (The word is too strong. Imagined. Anticipated?) this particular murder for so many years that it had taken on an air of performance… — Shelley Jackson Copy Share
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like… — Edith Pearlman Copy Share Image
Every true-crime thing you see goes in with that kind of ominous music and low lighting, so to be able to talk about these… — Karen Kilgariff Copy Share Image
“Murderess is a strong word to have attached to you. It has a smell to it, that word - musky and oppressive, like dead… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Murder is something you read about, listen to on a wireless, see at the pictures, discover in print every Sunday morning when you open… — Molly Lefebure Copy Share Image
I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“We discovered that safety and security are commodities you can sell in return for excitement but you can never buy them back.” — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“You should remind yourself that what you love is mortal, that what you love is not your own. It is granted to you the… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies. — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
“Before my daughter was lost to me, I might have attributed his apparent stillness and control to a lack of feeling, but now I… — Louise Doughty Copy Share Image
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For us what… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Wonderful is the depth of thy words, whose surface is before us, gently leading on the little ones: and yet a wonderful deepness, O… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Crazy Love is crazy good! Leslie What's brain is evidently crowded with strangeness, awfulness, wonderfulness, wildness, madness of all kinds...and love. Lots of love.… — Molly Gloss Copy Share Image
A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
“When Magnus looked at Imasu, he saw Imasu had dropped his head into his hands. "Er," Magnus said. "Are you quite all right?" "I… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th]. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren't many cliches, the truth is often quite… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
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