Horrible Things Quotes

• Why bad things happen to good people

  Harold S. Kushner

  Erosion, Everything Happens For A Reason, People

  When Bad Things Happen to Good People ch. 1 (1981)

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• I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

  Roseanne Barr

  Father, Parent, Want

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• Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Fashion, War, Eye

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• ...You find a way, somehow to get through the most horrible things, things you think would kill you. You find a way and you move through the days, one by one, in shock, in despair, but you move. The days pass, one after the other, and you go along with them - occasionally stunned, and not entirely relieved, to find that you are still alive.

  Michelle Richmond

  Moving, Thinking, Despair

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• Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Mean, Son

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

  Ann Patchett

  Mouths, Virtue, Horrible

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.43, A&C Black

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Flames

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• I waved to everybody. Some of them even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can’t believe he did those horrible things . . .

  Jeff Lindsay

  Nice, Believe, Men

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.32, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Cutting, Science, Doubt

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• I generally don't like living in a world where being what a man is, is a horrible thing; and no matter what a woman is, is a wonderful thing.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Men, Matter, World

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• I've made millions of dollars with the body I have, so where's the pain in that? If I was in pain, I would have dieted. The pain is not there - the pain is someone printing a picture of me and saying those horrible things.

  Tyra Banks

  Pain, Dollars, Body

  "Tyra Talks". Interview, people.com. February 5, 2007.

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• What a horrible thing yellow is.

  Edgar Degas

  Yellow, Horrible

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• I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

  Linda McCartney

  God, Religious, Mean

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• When you're dying and your life is flashing before your eyes, you're gonna be thinking about the great things that you did, the horrible things that you did and the emotional impact that someone had on you and that you had on somebody else. Those are the things that are relevant. To have some sort of emotional impact that transcends your time, that's great. As long as you don't mess it up by being undignified when you're old.

  Courtney Love

  Eye, Emotional, Thinking

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• You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

  Robert Kirkman

  Reading, Character, White

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• I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

  Jane Fonda

  Hurt, Regret, Gun

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• It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Becoming, Horrible

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2009.

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• The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.

  Morgan Freeman

  Proud, Irony, Ends

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• Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

  Brendan Fraser

  World, Circumstances, Horrible

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The world is full of horrible things.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  World, Horrible

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• Mr. Vandemar showed them his teeth, demonstrating his sunny and delightful disposition. It was unquestionably the most horrible thing Richard had ever seen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Teeth, Sunny, Disposition

  Neil Gaiman (2010). “Neverwhere”, p.100, Hachette UK

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• All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing.

  David Baldacci

  Running, Appreciation, Writing

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• This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

  David Levithan

  Gratitude, Thinking, People

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.76, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Thinking, Understanding, Horrible

  Lauren DeStefano (2013). “Sever”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Doubt, Horrible, Tennyson

  Gerard Manley Hopkins (1991). “Selected Letters”, Oxford University Press, USA

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