Terrible Things Quotes - Page 15

• Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Sarcastic, Laughter, Laughing

  16 Copy quote

• Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, History

  Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press

  74 Copy quote

  Show source

• Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

  Oscar Wilde

  Thinking, Personality, Religion

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.168, First Avenue Editions

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can abide it without anger.

  Stephen Fry

  Mother, Dream, Children

  4 Copy quote

• So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.

  Ruth Benedict

  Marriage, Children, Home

  8 Copy quote

• It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

  Russell T Davies

  Drama, Government, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The terrible thing about sunlight is it shows the dirt.

  Brigid Berlin

  Dirt, Sunlight, Terrible

  4 Copy quote

• You know, a few months ago, I made a terrible mistake. I realized something, and instead of crushing the thought the moment it came I... I let it hang on, and now I know it to be true. And I'm afraid it's stuck in my head forever. These are the best days of our lives. It's a terrible thing to know, but I know it.

  Richard Curtis

  Crush, Mistake, Forever

  "Fictional character: The Count". "The Boat That Rocked", www.imdb.com. April 1, 2009.

  67 Copy quote

  Show source

• For years I've been interested in a fundamental question concerning what I call the psychology of evil: Why is it that good people do evil deeds? I've been interested in that question since I was a little kid. Growing up in the ghetto in the South Bronx, I had lots of friends who I thought were good kids, but for one reason or another they ended up in serious trouble. They went to jail, they took drugs, or they did terrible things to other people. My whole upbringing was focused on trying to understand what could have made them go wrong.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Growing Up, Kids, Ghetto

  7 Copy quote

• The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Night, Acting, Theater

  14 Copy quote

• You know, it is a terrible thing to appear on television, because people think that you actually know what you're talking about.

  David Attenborough

  Thinking, Talking, People

  19 Copy quote

• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Party

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 22, 2013

  181 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things - they save you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Positive, Positivity, Sometimes

  "Haunted". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 3, 2005.

  40 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

  Robert Cormier

  Evil, Sin, Terrible

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Heroes”, p.115, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

  Oscar Wilde

  Truth, Men, Forgive Me

  Oscar Wilde (1899). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.151

  72 Copy quote

  Show source

• Easy to see that naught save sorrow could bring a man to such a view of things. And yet a sorrow for which there can be no help is no sorrow. It is some dark sister traveling in sorrow's clothing. Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Believe, Dark, Men

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.424, Pan Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Terrible, Happened

  6 Copy quote

• You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Ged, Life Is, Fear Of Death

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1975). “The farthest shore”, Puffin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Never forget that God is your friend. And like all friends, He longs to hear what's been happening in your life. Good or bad, whether it's been full of sorrow or anger, or even when you're questioning why terrible things have to happen.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Good Life, Anger, Questioning Why

  6 Copy quote

• ... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

  Mercedes Lackey

  People, Sometimes, Terrible

  5 Copy quote

• You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Thinking, Awful

  8 Copy quote

• All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Hurt, Worry

  53 Copy quote

• I was not a particularly brave child, I think, because I had a narrative mind, because my mind automatically went to any terrible thing that could happen.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Thinking, Brave

  4 Copy quote

• I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

  Kate DiCamillo

  Heart, Broken, How To Love

  Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.408, Candlewick Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A terrible thing about getting oldish is that your friends start dying, and in the last ten years I have lost seven or eight of my closest.

  Norman MacCaig

  Eight, Years, Dying

  6 Copy quote