Terrible Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• I don't know anyone who has described that terrible yearning for ecstasy and immolation through music as lucidly as Sean Madigan Hoen in Songs Only You Know. Only a thorough initiate of the scene who also had some genius with language could summon the demotic yet electric voice for the job. If there is ruefulness, now, for the way he treated his body, his girlfriends, and his family, he wisely reprises in his book, in neon detail, the fever that once placed him in the same drunken boat with Iggy Pop, Rimbaud and Artaud.

  Jaimy Gordon

  Song, Girlfriend, Jobs

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• Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness... But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values - the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

  Michael Robotham

  Loneliness, Love You, Loss

  "Bleed for Me (Joseph O'Loughlin)". Book by Michael Robotham, 2010.

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• Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.

  Elder Paisios of Mount Athos

  Believe, Saint

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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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• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  Fannie Flagg

  Order, Missing, Excellent

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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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• There are some similarities, of course (between Iraq and Vietnam). Death is terrible.

  George W. Bush

  Iraq, Vietnam, Similarity

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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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• Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Lying, Men

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• We always believe God is like ourselves, the indulgent think him indulgent and the stern, terrible.

  Joseph Joubert

  God, Believe, Thinking

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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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• I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the worst guy on the planet, or from time to time I'll think I'm the greatest gift to music and the coolest guy who ever lived, but that happens maybe an hour out of the week. Some days I'm more concerned with how my hair looks than what my guitar sounds like.

  Dave Navarro

  Music, Thinking, Hair

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• There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

  Hippocrates

  Art, Pain, Mean

  Hippocrates, Paul Potter (1984). “Hippocrates”

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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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• You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government.

  Ralph Steadman

  Betrayal, Thinking, Government

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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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• Who's straight? I'm not. I am bent gouged pinched and tugged at, and squeezed into this funny shape. Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move, and now the flukey play is cramped and slow, a dream of constraint and cross-purpose, with each move forced, all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged... But here and there we see these figures who appear to run on the true lines, and they are terrible examples. They're rich, usually.

  Martin Amis

  Running, Dream, Moving

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• Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still know where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

  Douglas Adams

  Struggle, Winning, Men

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.29, Pan Macmillan

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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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