Terrible Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• It's a terrible thing when a person dies, whatever the circumstances. A hole opens up in the world, and we need to pay the proper respects. If we don't, the hole will never be filled in again.

  Haruki Murakami

  Filled In, Needs, World

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• It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Adults, Sooner Or Later

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• It is, I suppose, the common grief of children at having to protect their parents from reality. It is bitter for the young to see what awful innocence adults grow into, that terrible vulnerability that must be sheltered from the rodent mire of childhood.

  Katherine Dunn

  Children, Grief, Reality

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Aug 29, 2016

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• I have a plan.” He groaned. “I was afraid of that.” “My plans are not terrible.” “Isabelle’s plans are terrible.” He pointed a finger at her. “Your plans are suicidal. At best.” She sat back, her arms crossed over her chest. “Do you want to hear it or not? You have to keep it a secret.” “I would pluck out my own eyes with a fork before I would give away your secrets,” Simon said, then looked anxious. “Wait a second. Do you think that’s likely to be required?

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicidal, Eye, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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• ...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Night, Sea

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.76, Hamilton Books

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• It's a terrible shame if you're born the brightest guy in your class. If you're not, then you have to hustle-and that's good.

  Harold Prince

  Class, Guy, Intelligence

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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'm terrible with patience.

  Katherine Heigl

  Patience

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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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• All the things I've thought about love are true. It's beautiful and terrible and it doesn't make things perfect. It ends things, and it brings beginnings. This is mine.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Beautiful, Perfect, Ends

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• At that stage of my youth, death remained as abstract a concept as non-Euclidean geometry or marriage. I didn't yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who'd entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

  Jon Krakauer

  Heart, Appreciate, Youth

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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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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• I believe a man is born first unto himself - for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a nursery, and the pretty things are to be snatched for, and pleasant things tasted; some people seem to exist thus right to the end. But most are born again on entering manhood; then they are born to humanity, to a consciousness of all the laughing, and the never-ceasing murmur of pain and sorrow that comes from the terrible multitudes of brothers.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Brother, Pain, Believe

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2000). “The Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.7, Cambridge University Press

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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's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Stupid, Oxygen

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• There will be consequences for this, he thought. You can't alter time and not be affected. But whatever the consequences are, I will bear them, because the alternative is too terrible. -Artemis Fowl, The Lost Colony

  Eoin Colfer

  Alternatives, Fowl, Bears

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• You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet.

  John Green

  Inspiring, Real, Long

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.272, Penguin

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• Ty Cobb was still fighting the Civil War, and as far as he was concerned, we were all damn Yankees. But who knows, if he hadn't had that terrible persecution complex, he never would have been about the best ballplayer who ever lived.

  Sam Crawford

  Baseball, War, Fighting

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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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• Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Happiness, Squirrels, Self

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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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• We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Christian, Atheist, Struggle

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• Many other such substitutes for war will be discovered, but perhaps precisely thereby it will become more and more obvious that such a highly cultivated and therefore necessarily enfeebled humanity as that of modern Europe not only needs wars, but the greatest and most terrible wars, consequently occasional relapses into barbarism, lest, by the means of culture, it should lose its culture and its very existence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Mean, Europe

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