Terrible Quotes - Page 27

• Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

  P. T. Barnum

  Judging, Publicity, Happens

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• When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so.

  Aristotle

  Running, Adventure, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1763, Princeton University Press

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• It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.

  Hector Berlioz

  Depression, Running, Heart

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Women, Loneliness

  Christina Stead (1966). “Dark Places of the Heart”

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• A dozen press agents working overtime can do terrible things to the human spirit.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Agents, Dozen, Spirit

  "Sunset Boulevard", www.imdb.com. 1950.

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• You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

  Jean Renoir

  World, Cynicism, Reason

  "Jean Renoir: essays, conversations, and reviews".

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• When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don't advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.

  John F. Kerry

  Moving, Duplicity, Kyoto

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• I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.

  Halle Berry

  Racism, Black, Faces

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• I'm not a racist. I made a terrible, terrible mistake.

  Donald Sterling

  Mistake, Racism, Racist

  "Donald Sterling tells Anderson Cooper: I was 'baited' into 'a terrible mistake'". Article by Ismael Estrada and Catherine E. Shoichet, edition.cnn.com. May 12, 2014.

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• I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

  Donald Sterling

  Racism, Ugly, Guilty

  Full transcript: Donald Sterling’s interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, www.insidesocal.com. May 13, 2014.

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• Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Fall, Drinking

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Fashion, Purple, White

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• There is no witness so terrible, no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

  Sophocles

  Memories, Powerful, Witness

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• His impression was that he had been imprisoned in a shelter deep down in the underworld of his personality, listening and biding his time while insanity rushed like spring flood through the upper layer of his soul, roaring and crashing, leaving terrible destruction in its wake, a deserted, ravaged country. No, he hadn't been crazy, but something inside him had been crazy.

  Christer Kihlman

  Depression, Country, Crazy

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• I had discovered a terrible vulnerability I myself which I think of not as cowardliness but as an ability to imagine too much.

  William Kittredge

  Fear, Thinking, Too Much

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• The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate ‘Job,’ the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Jesus, Jobs

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.93, Penguin

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• Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mood

  Luis Alberto Urrea (2006). “The Hummingbird's Daughter: A Novel”, p.8, Hachette UK

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• I remember a Buddhist teachers reflections on the Holocaust...What terrible karma those Jews mustve had... This kind of fundamentalism, which blames the victims and rationalizes their horrific fate, is something no longer to be tolerated quietly. It is time for... modern Buddhism to outgrow it by accepting social responsibility and finding ways to address such injustices.

  David Loy

  Karma, Teacher, Buddhist

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• I have learned that I, we, are a dollar-a-day people (which is terrible, they say, because a cow in Japan is worth $9 a day). This means that a Japanese cow would be a middle class Kenyan... a $9-a-day cow from Japan could very well head a humanitarian NGO in Kenya. Massages are very cheap in Nairobi, so the cow would be comfortable.

  Binyavanga Wainaina

  Mean, Japan, Class

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• No matter how ruined man and his world may seem to be, and no matter how terrible man's despair may become, as long as he continues to be a man his very humanity continues to tell him that life has a meaning.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, Men, Long

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

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• Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

  Jean Anouilh

  Book, Reality, Historical

  Jean Anouilh (1956). “Time Remembered: A Romantic Comedy”

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• What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Reality, People, Tragedy

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.376, Macmillan

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• If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches.

  John F. Kennedy

  Presidential, Three, Headache

  Conversation with Harold Macmillan, in Bermuda, in 1961. "President Kennedy: Profile of Power". Book by Richard Reeves, 1993.

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• This huge and terrible industry [the slave trade] was blessed by all churches and for a long time aroused absolutely no religious protest. . . . In the eighteenth century, a few dissenting Mennonites and Quakers in America began to call for abolition, as did some freethinkers like Thomas Paine.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Blessed, America

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.171, Atlantic Books Ltd

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