Terrible Quotes - Page 35

• There's a terrible delight in watching a rival sink without a trace

  Bernard Hinault

  Delight, Rivals, Without A Trace

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• God, conquered, will become Satan; Satan, conquering, will become God. May the fates spare me this terrible lot; I love the Hell which formed my genius. I love the Earth where I have done some good, if it be possible to do any good in this fearful world where beings live but by rapine.

  Anatole France

  Fate, Satanic, Genius

  Anatole France (2015). “The Revolt of the Angels: Works by France”, p.173, 谷月社

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• For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

  John Crowe Ransom

  Art, Play, Logic

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• He who bears injustice alone is terrible to behold.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pain, Suffering, Hardship

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• What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Home, Writing, Men

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• I say the same of humility and of all the virtues; the wiles of the devil are terrible, he will run a thousand times round hell if by so doing he can make us believe that we have a single virtue which we have not. And he is right, for such ideas are very harmful, and such imaginary virtues, when they come from this source, are never unaccompanied by vainglory; just as those which God gives are free both from this and from pride.

  Teresa of Avila

  Running, Believe, Humility

  St. Teresa of Avila (2013). “Interior Castle”, p.79, Simon and Schuster

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• To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to cease by inches from being human, to become in the end capable of nothing, generous or unselfish; or sometimes capable of anything, however terrible.

  John Austin Baker

  Heart, Suffering Of Others, Imagination

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• In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Humility

  William Shakespeare (1996). “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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• I know how bad a thing it is to be a slave and I know how terrible it was but I don't believe that there's a free person in the whole world that knows how good a cup full of water can taste. Because you have to be a deprived slave, to be kept waiting for your water like we were to really appreciate how good just one swallow can be. When we finally got a drop on our tongues it was like something straight from the hands of the Almighty.

  Walter Mosley

  Appreciation, Believe, Hands

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• Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

  Polly Toynbee

  People, Dying, Way

  "Cardinals, bishops and doctors must not deny us our last rights" by Polly Toynbee, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2006.

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• So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

  Nigel Dennis

  Years, Cameras, Twenties

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• To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

  Hypatia

  Superstitions, Truth Is, Teach

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• The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.

  Marie Bashkirtseff

  Expectations, Worry

  Marie Bashkirtseff (1919). “Marie Bashkirtseff: the journal of a young artist, 1860-1884”

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• I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Jobs, Blood, Hands

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• How terrible to be alcoholic. You just want to quietly soothe and maybe poison yourself, but you end up poisoning those around you as well, like trying to commit suicide with a gas oven and unwittingly murdering your neighbors.

  Jonathan Ames

  Suicide, Trying, Poison

  Jonathan Ames (2015). “Wake Up, Sir!”, p.36, Pushkin Press

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• Just don't pollute something that's not dirty. I want my kids to be happy and I want them to be themselves. I was saying to a friend the other day, 'Remember, our kids are not us.' They're not. Sometimes we're trying to fix things that happened to us or projecting [onto them], and that's a terrible, terrible trap.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Dirty, Kids, Trying

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• Hate is a terrible thing. It's a wasteful, stupid emotion. You can hate someone with all your heart, but it'll never do them a bit of harm. The only person it hurts is you. You can spend your days hating, letting it eat away at you, and the person you hate will go on living just the same. So, what's the point?

  Stuart Neville

  Hurt, Hate, Stupid

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• The trouble is, I'm a terrible PR person.

  Peter Molyneux

  Trouble, Persons

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• There were three terrible ages of childhood - zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

  Cleveland Amory

  Childhood, Age, Three

  "The Cat and the Curmudgeon".

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• I'm a terrible singer, but it helps when I have to call a taxi.

  Gordon Getty

  Singers, Helping, Taxi

  "'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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• The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Self, Effort, Risk

  Said in 1936. Prologue to "The Ghost in the Little House" by William V. Holtz, 1993.

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• Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Evil, Approach

  William Shakespeare (1734). “The Second Part of Henry the Sixth: With the Death of the Good Duke Humphry : a Tragedy”, p.55

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• Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

  Thomas Browne

  Life, Death, Warrior

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.82

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• Pessimism is a very easy way out because it is a short view of life. If you look at what is happening around us today, you can't help but feel that life is a terrible complexity of problems. But if you look back a few thousand years, you realize that we have advanced fantastically. If you take a long view, I do not see how you can be pessimistic about the future of mankind.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Future, Views

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• In the terrible years of the Yezhov terror I spent seventeen months waiting in line outside the prison in Leningrad. One day somebody in the crowd identified me . . . and asked me in a whisper . . . "Can you describe this?" And I said: "I can."

  Anna Akhmatova

  Years, Waiting In Line, One Day

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.99, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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