Terrible Quotes
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For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
Oscar Wilde
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The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart — hearts are made to be broken — but that it turns one’s heart to stone.
Oscar Wilde
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Growing up, I had a terrible pudding-bowl haircut. I used to cut it myself, and I'd sew my own clothing, too. I looked a little strange compared to the other kids. But the thing was, I felt I looked amazing, so what other people thought never bothered me.
Becki Newton
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It's a terrible poison, writing.
A. S. Byatt
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There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.
Plato
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
Kate Winslet
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I studied math, and I was terrible at it.
Yair Lapid
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I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.
Carly Rae Jepsen
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Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.
Daniel Dae Kim
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The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.
Katharine Hepburn
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I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.
Orson Welles
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There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles
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I have never seen it (Jaws 4) but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific.
Michael Caine
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I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
Paddy Ashdown
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The world is always terrible.
Salman Rushdie
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Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.
Laini Taylor
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Now, when their glances met, they understood one another. The power that lay within both their souls had met, and, as it were, clasped hands. They accepted one another's sacrifice. Hers, mayhap, was the more complete of the two, because for her his absence would mean weary waiting, the dull heartache so terrible to bear.
Emma Orczy
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
Ivan Turgenev
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If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.
Tana French
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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde
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Politically it would be terribly repressive to prevent people from having as many children as they want. But something's got to prevent it; and it won't be pleasant... We're still behaving in ways that have become disastrous... I don't think this helps us to survive... We're very species-centric... and now exist at the expense of every other form of life on Earth.
W. S. Merwin
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Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.
Larry David
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At 20, I didn't know what suited me. I had terrible fashion sense and awful make-up.
Samantha Fox
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Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.
Dan Hawkins