Terrible - Quotes
If life in itself were a valuable possession and decidedly preferable to non-existence, the gate need not be occupied by such terrible guards as death and its terrors. But who would persevere in life as it is, if death were less frightful? And who could even so much as endure the thought of death, if life were a joy?
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
When dealt one of life’s terrible blows - the death of a parent, the end of a relationship, the positive test result, the guilty verdict, the final step off the tall building - there comes a moment of light-headedness, almost of euphoria, as the string which tethers us to our hopes is cut and we bounce off in another direction, briefly powered by the momentum of release.
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn`t like you. Especially when you don`t know what you`ve done to deserve it.
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
There is no witness so dreadful, no accuser so terrible, as the conscience that dwells in the heart of every man.
Buyers normally choose things they correctly expect to enjoy using. But not at Christmas. As a result, the massive holiday spending has the potential to do a terrible job matching products with users.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: you have no one to blame.