Terrible Quotes

• There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Beauty
  • Terrible
  • Surface

• One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Never
  • Terrible
  • Produce

• Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Give
  • Dislike

• Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

  

  Sara Gruen
  • Age
  • Cancer
  • Spread

• Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

  

  William Osler
  • War
  • Humanity
  • Enemy

• Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Society
  • Individuals
  • Crimes

• What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Blind
  • Idiot
  • Eras

• I smoke, isn't that terrible?

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Terrible
  • Smoke

• I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Country
  • Trump
  • Terrible

• I don't know (and I guess I never will while I'm alive) just how thick my old skull is, but I do know that it is pretty thick, or it would have been cracked many years ago, for I have been struck some terrible blows on my head with iron dray-pins, pokers, clubs, stone-coal, and bowlders, which would have split any man's skull wide open unless it was pretty thick. Doctors have often told me that my skull was nearly an inch in thickness over my forehead.

  

  George Devol
  • Men
  • Blow
  • Alive

• Shame on me if I don't try to do more with what I have. It would be... a terrible thing to waste this opportunity to try to make a difference.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Difference

• People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

  

  Patrice O'Neal
  • People
  • Life
  • Fairs

• When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Terrible
  • Accident

• I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Me
  • Security
  • Against

• Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything.

  

  Epictetus
  • Death
  • Terrible
  • Covet

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Think
  • Courage
  • Weakness

• A laugh is a terrible weapon.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Laugh
  • Terrible
  • Weapon

• Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Rules
  • Terrible

• You know what it would just be amazing to be remembered, you know like a mum telling a daughter ‘the boyband of my time, One Direction, they just had fun and they’re just normal guys but terrible, terrible dancers.’

  

  Louis Tomlinson One Direction
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Guy

• The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic movie.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Movie
  • Look
  • Shoes

• Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Terrible
  • Price
  • Economics

• The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Absence

• The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Terrible
  • Been
  • Rebuilding

• My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Like
  • First
  • Terrible

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