Horrific Quotes

• Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

  Margaret Cho

  Dark, Things In Life, Way

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• People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

  John Bolton

  War, Thinking, People

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• Something that's such a joy in my life every day - cooking - is this incredible, horrific danger to women around the world.

  Julia Roberts

  Joy, Cooking, World

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• No one is suggesting that [violent video games are] the only reason they went out and committed those horrific acts, but was it a tipping point? Was it something that pushed them over the edge? Was it a factor in that? Perhaps. That's a really big deal.

  Jim Steyer

  Reason, Violent, Committed

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• The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Drug, Awful, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.

  Dustin Diamond

  Knights, Honor, Samurai

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• My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  Alan Moore

  Life, Romantic, Cowboy

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• It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Art, Joy

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• You can't be more horrific than life itself.

  Francis Bacon

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• The real challenge in acting is in comedy. It's easier to get that gasp in a drama. Not easy, because you still have to find that emotional pitch. And when you do something in drama and you hear that sob from the audience it's so fulfilling. But as a comic actor, when the laugh is supposed to come and you punch in that line and nothing happens it is dreadful. It's horrific and you feel like dying right there.

  George Takei

  Real, Drama, Emotional

  "IGN Interview: George Takei". Interview with Travis Fickett, www.ign.com. May 1, 2007.

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• It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day

  Pope Francis

  Children, Thinking, Light

  Pope Francis (2017). “Embracing the Way of Jesus: Reflections from Pope Francis on Living Our Faith”, p.50, Loyola Press

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• We’re all women. We all have the same wonderful situations happen to us, the same horrific situations. We all get our hearts broken.

  Angie Harmon

  Heart, Broken, Wonderful

  "‘Rizzoli & Isles’ star Angie Harmon to lesbian fans: Sorry, I’m not Angie Hormone" By Margaret Eby, www.nydailynews.com. August 18, 2013.

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• We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well. We have our own Third World here. And we have to first become aware of that and how to help and solve that.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.

  Gene Simmons

  Mother, Good Day, Nazi Concentration Camps

  "Gene Simmons: What I've Learned" by Chris Buck, www.esquire.com. July 2002.

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• As the representatives of the people we are here to declare that our resolve has not been weakened by these horrific and cowardly acts.

  Tom Daschle

  People, September 11, Resolve

  Trent Lott, Tom Daschle, Jon Sternfeld (2016). “Crisis Point: Why We Must – and How We Can – Overcome Our Broken Politics in Washington and Across America”, p.138, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

  Christiane Amanpour

  Events, Century, Ends

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• The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named Bambi, Infant, Daisycutter, Grasshopper, and Agent Orange. Nor is the trend new: From the past we have Mustard Gas, Angel Chasers [two can-nonballs linked with a chain for added destruction], and the Peacemaker, to name a few.)

  Paul Dickson

  Angel, Past, Impact

  "The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to Help You Cope with Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape, and Attacks by Inanimate Objects".

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• Day 24. Situation is growing worse. My captors continue to find new and horrific ways to torture me. When not working, Agent Scarlet spends her days examining fabric swatches for bridesmaid dresses and going on about how in love she is. This usually causes Agent Boring Borscht to regale us with stories of Russian weddings that are even more boring than his usual ones. My attempts at escape have been thwarted thus far. Also, I am out of cigarettes. Any assistance or tobacco products you can send will be greatly appreciated. -Prisoner 24601

  Richelle Mead

  Usual, Dresses, Stories

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• I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers.

  Diane Cilento

  Teacher, People, Taught

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• As horrific as this impact has been on my constituents, it is only a small part of the overwhelming destruction covering 90,000 square miles of the Gulf Coast.

  Jo Bonner

  Impact, Squares, Covering

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• No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Lonely, Loneliness, Who I Am

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Regret, Eye, Boss

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “Inferno: Chronicles of Nick”, p.79, Macmillan

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• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  David Loy

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Country, Jobs, September 11

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• Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that's wrong.

  Charles Ferguson

  Jail, Years, Forgive Me

  "Charles Ferguson’s Oscar Speech Rips Wall Street: ‘Inside Job’ Director Levels Criticism During Acceptance". www.huffingtonpost.com. Februrary 28, 2011.

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