Terrible Things Quotes - Page 9

• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

  Frederick Buechner

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 17, 2016

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• A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Long, Terrible

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, David E. Wellbery (1988). “The Sorrows of Young Werther ; Elective Affinities ; Novella”, p.162, Princeton University Press

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• People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Beautiful, People, May

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

  Victor Hugo

  Thinking, Aim Of Life, Forget

  Victor Hugo (2000). “Les Mis??rables”, p.1231, Modern Library

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• I'm not blessed, or merciful. I'm just me. I've got a job to do, and I do it. Listen: even as we're talking, I'm there for old and young, innocent and guilty, those who die together and those who die alone. I'm in cars and boats and planes; in hospitals and forests and abbatoirs. For some folks death is a release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Blessed, Talking

  "The Sandman: Dream Country". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1990.

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• Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to continue fighting here on earth." "I don't understand why he had to fight. He was already in heaven." "True. But he wasn't content to serve. He wanted more." "He had all he could ask for, didn't he?" Ann asks. "Exactly." Miss Moore states. "He had to ask. He was dependent upon someone else's whim. It's a terrible thing to have no power of one's own. To be denied.

  Libba Bray

  Angel, Fighting, Missing

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• To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Lost, Terrible

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• There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

  Patrick Carman

  Writing, Self, Scary Stories

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• The evil done by men of goodwill is the worst of all ... We have done terrible things, for the best of reasons, and that makes it worse.

  Iain Pears

  Men, Evil, Done

  Iain Pears (2003). “Dream of Scipio”, p.321, Penguin

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• When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.

  Tony Campolo

  Evil, Islam, Muhammad

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• Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

  Robert Carlyle

  Bullying, Terrible

  "Taking it seriously". Interview with Libby Brooks, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2000.

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• The terrible thing about the quest for truth is that you find it.

  Remy de Gourmont

  Wisdom, Truth, Quests

  Remy de Gourmont (1920). “Philosophic Nights in Paris”

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• I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

  Alan Greenspan

  Easy, Legislation, Monopoly

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• It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.

  Lev Grossman

  Book, Like You, Terrible

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• The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Book, Shopping, Giving

  "The best things in life are..." by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2007.

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• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

  Hypatia

  Children, Pain, Believe

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• Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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• Hope is a terrible thing, she said. Is it? Yes, it keep you living in another place, a place which doesn't exist. For some people it's better than where they are. For many it's a relief. From life, she said. A relief from life? Is that living? Some people don't have a choice. No and that's awful for them. Hope is better than misery, he said. Or despair. Hope belongs in the same box as despair. Hope is not so bad, he said. At least despair has truth to it.

  Susan Minot

  People, Choices, Despair

  FaceBook post by Susan Minot from Dec 16, 2013

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• It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Vision

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• I think it's a shame when you come across young actors and musicians who haven't had the time to learn their craft. It doesn't matter if it's acting or music, you really have to learn how to do it from the bottom up because unless you have a great work ethic... fame is a terrible thing to have.

  Denis Leary

  Thinking, Work Ethic, Acting

  "The End of Rescue Me, But Not Denis Leary". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2011.

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• It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, Men, Wife

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• Of course it was a terrible thing, and the world would be a much better place without someone in it who could do that, but did that mean we had to miss lunch?

  Jeff Lindsay

  Mean, Lunch, Missing

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.66, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.

  Arthur Miller

  Dog, Fall, Character

  Death of a Salesman (1949) act 1

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• Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Terrible, Thirteen

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