Terrible Quotes - Page 18

• Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Men, Two, Long

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.742, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

  Lauren Beukes

  War, Relentless, Loud

  "The Shining Girls". Book by Lauren Beukes, 2013.

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• Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

  Anne Frank

  Sleep, Silence, Helping

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

  Stephen King

  Redemption, Want, Brooks

  "The Shawshank Redemption". www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Clary smiled at him with a warmth she didn’t feel. “Sebastian says I can come with you.” Jace raised his eyebrows. “Matching haircuts for everyone?” “I hope not,” said Sebastian. “I look terrible with curls.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eyebrows, Curls, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “City of Lost Souls”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.

  Edgar Wallace

  Fear, Snakes, Tyrants

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• It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Numbness, Weather

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• Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey,a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arrival. When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

  Alan Paton

  Journey, Men, House

  Alan Paton (2003). “Cry, the Beloved Country”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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  What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

  William Shakespeare

  Eras, Idiot, Blind

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• His frown was less dark and more confused. "What's new for you? Dancing?" And so much more, but all I said was, "Yes." "And you let some strange college boy grind all over you for your first time? That's stupid, Ali." Not going to be embarrassed, not going to be embarrassed. "First, he wasn't grinding on me, and second, you're no better than him." A solid minute of silence, then "You are terrible for my ego, you know that?" I could say the same to him.

  Gena Showalter

  Confused, Stupid, Dark

  "Alice in Zombieland". Book by Gena Showalter, 2012.

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• I was Marked by a very cute boy with terrible impulse control. I don't remember because I was basically unconscious but everyone was mad at him when I woke up. The end, love Clary.

  Cassandra Clare

  Cute, Boys, Impulse Control

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• She didn’t understand a damned thing about life except that it was arbitrary and cruel, and some people got away with murder while others made one tiny, careless mistake and paid a terrible price.

  Liane Moriarty

  Mistake, People, Arbitrary

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• When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Positive, Basketball, Believe

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• A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!

  Anton Chekhov

  Beautiful, Stars, Future

  Letter to A.S. Suvorin, October 18, 1888.

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• My aim is to understand love. I know how alive I felt when I was in love, and I know that everything I have now, however interesting it might seem, doesn't really excite me.
  But love is a terrible thing: I've seen my girlfriends suffer and I don't want the same thing to happen to me. [...] Although my aim is to understand love, and although I suffer to think of people to whom I gave my heart, I see that those who touched my heart failed to arouse my body, and that those who aroused my body failed to touch my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Girlfriend, Heart

  "Eleven Minutes". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2003.

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• ~I've never met a 2-year-old who is terrible. I'm so cool with every stage my daughter goes through. I just think she's amazing. I hope she's not looking at me thinking, Mom, are the terrible 30s coming on with you?~

  Katie Holmes

  Mom, Daughter, Parenting

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• Waiting is still an occupation. It is having nothing to wait for that is terrible.

  Cesare Pavese

  Patience, Waiting, Occupation

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.281, Transaction Publishers

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• As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.

  Wallace Stevens

  Literature, Grows

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.241, Vintage

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• "The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."

  Eva Hart

  People, History, Silence

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• We are a caring nation, and our values should also guide us on how we harness the gifts of science. New medical breakthroughs bring the hope of cures for terrible diseases and treatments that can improve the lives of millions. Our challenge is to make sure that science serves the cause of humanity instead of the other way around.

  George W. Bush

  Caring, Science, Challenges

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• White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so; life's business being just the terrible choice.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Men, White

  'The Ring and the Book' (1868-9) bk. 10, l. 1235

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• It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

  Warren Farrell

  Growing Up, America, Hearing

  "An Interview with Warren Farrell" by J. Steven Svoboda, www.menweb.org. 1997.

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• It was a terrible psychic blow... Ebbets Field was replaced by a housing project. How could a father tell his son where Duke Snider used to hit one? Point out Apartment 5Q?

  Joe Flaherty

  Baseball, Father, Son

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• As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, May, Rewards

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• It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.

  Edmond Jabes

  Death, Real, Journey

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