Terrible Quotes

There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust.

Edgar Allan Poe
- Terrible
- Bizarre
- Wanton
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog.

Richard Matheson

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.

Sophocles
- Speak
- Wrong
- Terrible
In repose, my face looks as though I had gone through a terrible deal in the last five minutes. I have to disguise the expression and get a glassy-eyed look. That's something I learned from my dog.

Judy Holliday
- Dog
- Expression
- Disguise
I'm terrible at making titles. I never like the titles of my films.

Cary Fukunaga
- Film
- Terrible
- Titles
We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Abraham Lincoln
- War
- Happy
- Termination
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .

Bill Vaughan
- Long
- Book
- Care
Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.

Franz Kafka
- Life
- Time
- Human being