Cities Quote by Sophocles

“You might say, “What a dreadful day,” without realizing that the cold, the wind, and the rain or whatever condition you react to are…

— Eckhart Tolle

We hold death, poverty, and grief for our principal enemies; but this death, which some repute the most dreadful of all dreadful things, who…

— Michel de Montaigne

“Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the…

— Phillips Brooks

The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious…

— Thomas Ligotti

In armies, navies, cities, or families, in nature herself, nothing more relaxes good order than misery.

— Herman Melville

Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly…

— Marisha Pessl

A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only…

— John Milton

“From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction…

— Jane Collier

“The trouble with taking away the certainty of evil was that its vacuum was filled by all kinds of more nebulous threats, rivalries, and…

— Karen Traviss

There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Sorrow itself is not so hard to bear As the thought of sorrow coming. Airy ghosts, That work no harm, do terrify us more…

— Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.

— Samuel Johnson