Horrible Quotes - Page 16

• Wow." I hadn't thought Dimitri could be any cooler, but I was wrong. "You beat up your dad. I mean, that's really horrible...what happened. But, wow. You really are a god." He blinked. "What?" "Uh, nothing.

  Richelle Mead

  Dad, Mean, Wow

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.101, Penguin

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• Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

  Carrie Fisher

  Life, Lines, Actresses

  Carrie Fisher (2011). “Postcards From the Edge”, p.131, Simon and Schuster

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• To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the thin veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

  Sylvia Plath

  Loneliness, Party, Grief

  Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.19, Anchor

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• A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow "for company." Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Children, Selfish

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• War was a hellish, horrible hideous thing - too horrible and hideous to happen in the twentieth century between civilised nations.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Century, Hideous

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.21, Booklassic

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• He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

  Michael Ende

  Beautiful, Quests, Deals

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• What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Children, Book

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• No, thanks," said Harry. "The toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it— it might be sick." Then he ran, before Dudley could work out what he'd said.

  J. K. Rowling

  Work Out, Sick, Toilets

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone”, p.33, Pottermore

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• Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

  Kevin Henkes

  Should, Something Better, Make Sense

  Kevin Henkes (2013). “Bird Lake Moon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• To such men the desperate and horrible thought has come that perhaps the whole of human life is but a bad joke, a violent and ill-fated abortion of the primal mother, a savage and dismal catastophe of nature.

  Hermann Hesse

  Mother, Men, Abortion

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

  William Golding

  News, Beast

  William Golding (1954). “Lord of the Flies”, p.206, Penguin

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• Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

  Darren Shan

  Sleep, Finals, Unfair

  Darren Shan (2007). “Cirque Du Freak: The Saga of Darren Shan”

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• He was beginning to understand: You were treated special and, later, something horrible would be told to you.

  Alice Sebold

  Special, Would Be, Treated

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

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• You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues are because you’re getting fat, and maybe it’s been raining too long. You’re just sad, that’s all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you’re afraid, and you don’t know what you’re afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

  Truman Capote

  Rain, Mean, Long

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• Monsters exist because they are part of the divine plan, and in the horrible features of those same monsters the power of the creator is revealed.

  Umberto Eco

  Monsters, Divine, Plans

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

  Rick Riordan

  Daughter, Mean, Son

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth”, p.256, Penguin UK

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• Sometimes I see things, I think. Out of the corner of my eye, taunting me, and then it’s gone. And dreams. Such horrible dreams. What if something terrible happened to me? What if I am damaged?" The rain is a cool kiss on my sleeve as I link my arm with hers. "We’re all damaged somehow.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Rain, Eye

  Libba Bray (2015). “The Gemma Doyle Trilogy”, p.335, Delacorte Press

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• You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

  Robert Kirkman

  Reading, Character, White

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• And when he had put his hand on mine with a cheerful look, wherefrom I took courage, he brought me within to the secret things. Here sighs, laments, and deep wailings were resounding through the starless air; wherefore at first I wept thereat. Strange tongues, horrible utterances, words of woe, accents of anger, voices high and faint, and sounds of hands with them, were making a tumult which whirls always in that air forever dark, like the sand when the whirlwind breathes.

  Dante Alighieri

  Dark, Air, Hands

  Dante Alighieri (2005). “The Divine Comedy: Inferno”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, well...up until now it had been a good day, in a horrible kind of way.

  Terry Pratchett

  Good Day, Way, Kind

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• And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day I'll see you trembling, and you'll go into convulsion and grow larger and smaller until your mouth opens and the world will come from your mouth, escaping through the window like a river, and it will flood the city. And then we'll begin to live.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Escaping, Cities, Rivers

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• How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!

  Jane Austen

  Blessing, People, Care

  Letter to Cassandra Austen, 31 May 1811, after the battle of Albuera, 16 May 1811, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'Jane Austen's Letters' (1952)

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• Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly is—and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.

  Harlan Coben

  Reality, Thinking, Insanity

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• If Slater were someone else, Kevin would merely be the poor victim of a horrible plot. Unless he was killed by Slater, in which case he would be the dead victim of a horrible plot

  Ted Dekker

  Would Be, Plot, Kevin

  Ted Dekker (2008). “Dekker 2 in 1 (Obsessed & Three)”, p.287, Thomas Nelson Inc

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