Ghastly Quotes

• One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Two Sides, People, Literature

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• I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

  Otto Dix

  War, Depth, Reason

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• If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

  Prince Philip

  Class, Appreciate, Design

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• Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

  Prince Philip

  Car, Edinburgh, Dukes

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• The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

  Richard J. Needham

  Normal, Return, Strikes

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• Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

  Willa Cather

  Thinking, Hands, Talent

  Willa Cather (1967). “The Kingdom of Art: Willa Cather's First Principles and Critical Statements, 1893-1896”, p.408, U of Nebraska Press

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• If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

  A. P. Herbert

  Life, Learning, Science

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• I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

  Rod Stewart

  Singing, Bathroom, Coming Out

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• The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Happiness, Fall, Ends

  D. H. Lawrence, Dieter Mehl (2002). “The Fox, The Captain's Doll, The Ladybird”, p.69, Cambridge University Press

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• How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test?

  Prince Philip

  Diamond Jubilee, Long, Tests

  "Prince Philip: His public life in gaffes", edition.cnn.com. May 4, 2017.

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• Do you still throw spears at each other?

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Dukes, Classic

  "Prince Philip's Spear 'Gaffe'". Said to Australian Aborigines, news.bbc.co.uk. March 01, 2002.

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• Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

  Prince Philip

  Leisure, Edinburgh, Complaining

  "Wince Philip: Prince's Most Famous Comments and Clangers". www.theguardian.com. May 04, 2017.

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• If you stay here much longer you'll all be slitty-eyed.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Ifs

  Remark to Edinburgh University students in Peking, 16 Oct. 1986, in 'The Times' 17 Oct. 1986

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• Deaf? If you're near there, no wonder you are deaf.

  Prince Philip

  Edinburgh, Classic, Wonder

  "Deaf Insulted by Duke's Remark". Said to a group of deaf children standing next to a Jamaican steel drum band, news.bbc.co.uk. May 27, 1999.

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• Do you know they have eating dogs for the anorexic now?

  Prince Philip

  Dog, Edinburgh, Classic

  "Duke bounds into guide dog gaffe" by Rebecca Allison, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2002.

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• As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Children, Adults, Shock

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• Dark house, by which once more I stand Here in the long unlovely street, Doors, where my heart was used to beat So quickly, waiting for a hand, A hand that can be clasp'd no more - Behold me, for I cannot sleep, And like a guilty thing I creep At earliest morning to the door. He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Morning, Rain, Heart

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 7

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• What more ghastly image can be called up than that of a man betrayed by his body who, simply because he did not die in time, lives out the comedy while awaiting the end, face to face with that God he does not adore, serving him as he served life, kneeling before a void and arms outstretched toward a heaven without eloquence that he knows to be also without depth?

  Albert Camus

  Men, Heaven, Body

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• When people think that moral problems can be solved by some simple strategy of calculation, that sets them up for ghastly overreaching. They think they can turn everything into a "science" the way mechanics was turned into a science in the seventeeth century. They want to turn everything over to technocrats and social engineers. They become shortsighted or simplistic about their ends, and they disastrously overestimate their ability to acquire the information they need to make the needed calculations.

  Allen W. Wood

  Simple, Thinking, People

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

  John Milton

  Should, Horrible, Famine

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.509

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• Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

  Paul Delaroche

  Education, Kind, Inspired

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• Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Ocean, Heart, Air

  Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• The god of Moses would call for other tribes, including his favorite one, to suffer massacre and plague and even extirpation, but when the grave closed over his victims he was essentially finished with them unless he remembered to curse their succeeding progeny. Not until the advent of the Prince of Peace do we hear of the ghastly idea of further punishing and torturing the dead.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Suffering, Prince Of Peace

  Christopher Hitchens (2007). “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything”, p.140, Hachette UK

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• In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.

  Peter J. Carroll

  Creating, Magic, Tools

  Peter J. Carroll (1992). “Liber Kaos”, p.75, Weiser Books

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• Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

  Mary Balogh

  Regret, Opposites, Numbers

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