Terrible Quotes - Page 26

• I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Grandchildren, Looks, Apologizing

  Kurt Vonnegut (2013). “If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young”, p.79, RosettaBooks

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• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  Garry Trudeau

  Character, Writing, Entertainment

  "Garry Trudeau: What a Long, Strange Strip It’s Been". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. January/february 2007.

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• The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body.

  Carl Jung

  Tragedy, Body, Want

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• If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.

  Carl Jung

  Mean, Reality, Men

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• The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of equal justice under law, but also of due process. And it goes state by state, and it's different in different states.

  Burke Marshall

  Thinking, Law, Justice

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• Men who no longer can make sure of the reality which they feel and experience through talking about it and sharing it with their fellow-men, live in the same nightmare of loneliness and uncertainty which, in a normal world, is the terrible fate of insanity.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Fate, Reality

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• I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Men, Mad

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.560

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• I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay

  Monica Seles

  Sports, Dark, Tennis

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• What a terrible thing it is to lose one's mind.

  Dan Quayle

  Mind, Terrible Things, Loses

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• Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

  Maxim Gorky

  Simple, Silence, Speak

  Maxim Gorky (2016). “Twenty-Six and One: And Other Stories”, p.10, The Floating Press

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• Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

  Thom Yorke

  Different

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• I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.

  Thom Yorke

  Jigsaw Puzzles, People, Special

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• Life and death, energy and peace. If I stop today it was still worth it. Even the terrible mistakes that I made and would have unmade if I could. The pains that have burned me and scarred my soul, it was worth it, for having been allowed to walk where I've walked, which was to hell on earth, heaven on earth, back again, into, under, far in between, through it, in it, and above.

  Gia Carangi

  Pain, Mistake, Life And Death

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.

  Burt Bacharach

  School, Piano, Littles

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• Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Mistake, Media, Editors

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• The most practical teaching of the Gita, and one for which it is of abiding interest and value to the men of the world with whom life is a series of struggles, is not to give way to any morbid sentimentality when duty demands sternness and the boldness to face terrible things.

  Bal Gangadhar Tilak

  Struggle, Teaching, Men

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• Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, because it not only takes up time when you might be doing individual private things, but it prevents you storing up the psychic energy that can then be released to create art or whatever it is. It's terrible the way we scotch silence & solitude at every turn, quite suicidal. I can't see how to avoid it, without being very rich or very unpopular, & it does worry me, for time is slipping by , and nothing is done. It isn't as if anything was gained by this social frivolity, It isn't: it's just a waste.

  Philip Larkin

  Art, Suicidal, Thinking

  Philip Larkin (2012). “Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica”, Faber & Faber

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• I don't have a sense of time. Time is timeless to me, and I'm not in a hurry to get older. I mean, if I were worried about time, all the time, it would be terrible.

  Nico

  Mean, Would Be, Worried

  "Life and Lies of an Icon". Book by Richard Witts, 1995.

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• We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  War, History, Sick

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• They do not know what they say. If it came to a conflict of arms, the war will last at least four years. Northern politicians will not appreciate the determination and pluck of the South, and Southern politicians do not appreciate the numbers, resources, and patient perseverance of the North. Both sides forget that we are all Americans. I foresee that our country will pass through a terrible ordeal, a necessary expiation, perhaps, for our national sins.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, Perseverance, Determination

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• The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world.

  John Dos Passos

  New York, World, Stale

  John Dos Passos (2003). “Manhattan Transfer: A Novel”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It's peaceful. Still. Publishing is a terrible invasion of my privacy. I like to write. I live to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure. I don't necessarily intend to publish posthumously, but I do like to write for myself. I pay for this kind of attitude. I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

  J. D. Salinger

  Attitude, Writing, Men

  "Salinger: A Biography". Book by Paul Alexander, 2000.

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• It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.

  William Feather

  Nature, People, Humans

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock.

  Carl Jung

  Learning, Personality, Shock

  Carl Gustav Jung, Mary Foote (1976). “The visions seminars: from the complete notes of Mary Foote”

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• Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Awful, Sides

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.251, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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