Terrible Quotes - Page 31

• If you can't joke about the most horrendous things in the world, what's the point of jokes? What's the point in having humor? Humor is to get us over terrible things.

  Ricky Gervais

  World, Jokes, Ifs

  Interview with Chris Heath, www.gq.com. May 15, 2013.

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• I hated the place (Hollywood), not the work, but the lack of privacy, those terrible prying fan magazine writers and all the surrounding exploitation.

  Jean Arthur

  Magazines, Hollywood, Fans

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• It was a very bad idea. It was a terrible idea. It was the worst idea he had ever heard. It was irresistible.

  Cassandra Clare

  Ideas, Worst, Heard

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson (2014). “The Bane Chronicles”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• Perhaps we are the same person. Perhaps we have no limits; perhaps we flow into each other, stream through each other, boundlessly and magnificently. You bear terrible thoughts; it is almost painful to be near you. At the same time it is enticing. Do you know why?

  Ingmar Bergman

  Limits, Flow, Bears

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• To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

  Kristin Hannah

  Love Is, Rest Of Your Life, Unbearable

  Kristin Hannah (2014). “The Kristin Hannah Collection: Volume 2: Winter Garden, Night Road, Home Front”, p.191, St. Martin's Griffin

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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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• I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

  Maurice Sendak

  Childhood, Scare, Adults

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

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• Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.

  Rick Yancey

  Dream, Fall, Night

  Rick Yancey (2010). “The Monstrumologist: Curse of the Wendigo”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.

  Bruce Coville

  Growing Up, Smart, Kids

  Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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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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• People say footballers have terrible taste in music but I would dispute that. In the car at the moment I've got The Corrs, Cher, Phil Collins, Shania Twain and Rod Stewart.

  Andy Gray

  People, Car, Taste In Music

  "Why Radiohead are the enemy of sporting excellence" by Steven Wells, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2003.

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• It’s a terrible thing to hate your mother. But I didn’t always hate her. When I was a child, I only kind of disliked her.

  Laurence Harvey

  Mother, Children, Hate

  "Fictional character: Raymond Shaw". "The Manchurian Candidate", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible

  Karl Malone

  Marijuana, League, Guy

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• WE ARE DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY - I mean our country itself, our land. This is a terrible thing to know, but it is not a reason for despair unless we decide to continue the destruction. If we decide to continue the destruction, that will not be because we have no other choice. This destruction is not necessary. It is not inevitable, except that by our submissiveness we make it so.

  Wendell Berry

  Country, Mean, Land

  Wendell Berry (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.21, Counterpoint Press

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• All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too.

  Toni Morrison

  Mother, House, Yards

  "Beloved". Book by Toni Morrison, 1987.

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• Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Pain, Bears

  On Photography "America, Seen Through Photographs, Darkly" (1977)

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• No one to blame! That was why most people led lives they hated, with people they hated. How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right. You may be fragmented, but you feel absolved of all the blame for it. Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Hate, Hands, People

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• The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men's eyes.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beautiful, Eye, Dark

  Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Tombs of Atuan: The Second Book of Earthsea”, p.53, Hachette UK

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• Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Blessing, Boredom

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• It seems to me that what most of us have to fear for the future is not that something terrible is going to happen, but rather that nothing is going to happen... I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is boring. The future is going to be boring.

  J. G. Ballard

  Boring, Happens, One Word

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• A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

  David Antin

  Lying, Men, White

  David Antin (1976). “Talking at the boundaries”, W W Norton & Co Inc

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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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• There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

  Sarah Waters

  No Patience, Deranged

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.203, Penguin

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  Garry Trudeau

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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