Terrible Quotes

• The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?

  

  E. A. Bucchianeri
  • Hell
  • Terrible
  • Gates Of Hell

• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Good
  • Song
  • Poor

• After the terrible events of last week, there is still the shock and disbelief; there is anger; there is fear; but there is also, throughout the world, a profound sense of solidarity; there is courage; there is a surging of the human spirit.

  

  Tony Blair
  • World
  • Spirit
  • Week

• So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age.

  

  John Gardner
  • Age
  • Childhood
  • Sameness

• The most terrible of all things is terror.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Terrible
  • Terror

• My diet is always terrible, unfortunately. I don't know moderation.

  

  Sean Astin
  • Terrible
  • Moderation
  • Diets

• To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Lost
  • Terrible
  • Spiritlessness

• I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Mind
  • Mad
  • Danger

• Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Words
  • Magic
  • Cruel

• Some may say that such a girl is not ready for a relationship with a man, especially a man in his late sixties. But to that I say: We don't know anything. We don't know how to cure a cold or what dogs are thinking. We do terrible things, we make wars, we kill people out of greed. So who are we to say how to love. I wouldn't force her. I wouldn't have to. She would want me. We would be in love. What do you know. You don't know anything. Call me when you've cured AIDS, give me a ring then and I'll listen.

  

  Miranda July
  • Say
  • To Do
  • We

• I'm really terrible at sort of figuring out the thing that's going to make the money, I guess.

  

  Julia Kent Antony and the Johnsons
  • Terrible

• I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • People
  • Mind
  • Giving

• I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Child
  • Parent

• The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Reality
  • Sold

• I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Did
  • Ruined

• The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • War
  • Together
  • Process

• I would say the hierarchy has made terrible errors in judgment and it has to seek forgiveness by its members.

  

  William P. Leahy
  • Forgiveness
  • Judgment
  • Errors

• Let us be terrible in order to prevent the people from being terrible themselves!

  

  Georges Danton
  • Being
  • Terrible
  • Prevent

• People are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don't know what kind of terrible, terrible, oh such terrible cage.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • People
  • Kind
  • Knows

• War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • War
  • Terrible
  • Magnitude

• I was a terrible English student.

  

  Leon Uris
  • English
  • Terrible
  • Student

• That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Lies
  • Existence

• There is no evil as terrible as a woman.

  

  Euripides
  • Woman
  • Terrible
  • No Evil

• Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.

  

  Loni Anderson
  • Happens
  • Smoking
  • Related

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