Terrible Quotes
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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 -
That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
Tom Stoppard -
MS is terrible for anybody, and all of the stories are important.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
I'm not romantic at all. I'm a moaner. I should be on Grumpy Old Men. I'm terrible.
Bruno Tonioli -
How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that's wise.
Sophocles -
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
There was a tsunami and there are terrible natural disasters, because there isn't enough Torah study.
Ovadia Yosef
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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 -
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
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 -
Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
Loni Anderson -
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
Martha Gellhorn
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They wanted me to be a concert pianist, because I had a very good right hand, but my left hand's terrible and I hated performing.
Stephen Sondheim -
Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure.
Sandra Cisneros -
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me.
Oscar Wilde -
It felt terrible but I was glad I played all the way through so I didn't have to sit down and have it stiffen up. It stiffened up real bad at halftime but I managed to get through it.
Allen Iverson -
Let whatever's going to happen, happen. Don't judge it before you do it. Sure, sometimes it will be terrible, but sometimes it will just be amazing. That's where the gold is.
Cloris Leachman -
I never want to go back and remix old records, either. If a record sounds shitty, that's just the sound it has. I just take it as part of the music. Some of my favorite bands - their old records sound terrible. But that's just part of the sound. If they were perfect, I'd probably hate them. Same thing with movies.
Rob Zombie
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Love is a wonderful, terrible thing.
William Shakespeare -
The point is, this is what happens when advertising and data collection is the dominant business mode. We are encouraged to be compulsive. It's not that we're terrible addicts who need to go to an AA meeting and get off our gadgets.
Astra Taylor -
Lycurgus the Lacedæmonian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set up a democracy in your own house."
Plutarch -
How does [Mitt Romney] explain all of those terrible things he said, you know, that - to the Kellyanne [Conwey] point.
Andrea Mitchell