Terrible Quotes
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The real world is simply too terrible to admit. it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die. Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe. immortal in some ways
Ernest Becker
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Ah, gratitude, that's a terrible thing, a dangerous thing.
Elizabeth Ferrars
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Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
Sandra Cisneros
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In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
Josiah Strong
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
Miguel de Unamuno
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No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have this feeling, that if not for that essential terribleness we could have gotten further by now. Done better. Done more.
Catherynne M. Valente
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To see how your children suffer, when something does not work out for them, is terrible.
Ornella Muti
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A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.
Charles Dickens
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The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Oscar Wilde
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
Loni Anderson
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People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.
Eudora Welty
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The gates of Hell are terrible to behold, are they not?
E. A. Bucchianeri
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I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.
Katharine Hepburn
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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
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Just reading that - just reading that a person can be black and still perform in blackface, making fun of black people for a living, and at the same time be a genius and be an incredible entertainer and at the same time be extremely conflicted and feel like - just feel terrible for doing that, essentially, which is what Bert Williams felt, from what I gather, from what I read - all of that just made - was so incredible to me.
Cecile McLorin Salvant
