Top 20 Appall Quotes
#1. I believe novels can have secrets from their author, a notion I imagine would appall Nabokov.
Steve Erickson
#2. Waking love suffereth no sleepe:
Say, that raging love dothe appall the weake stomacke:
Say, that lamenting love marreth the musicall.
Edmund Spenser
#3. What but design of darkness to appall?- If design govern in a thing so small.
Robert Frost
#4. The only mothers who never embarrass, harass, dismiss, discount, deceive, distort, neglect, baffle, appall, inhibit, incite, insult, or age poorly are dead mothers, perfectly contained in photographs, pressed into two dimensions like a golden autumn leaf.
Kelly Corrigan
#5. Mark Helprin and Lawrence Durrell, both of whom write fat and florid novels that appall me now but opened my eyes to the power of fiction when I was in my 20s.
Kevin Patterson
#6. Property was thus appall'd / That the self was not the same / Single nature's double name / Neither two nor one was call'd.
Michael Oakeshott
#7. First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life.
Milan Kundera
#8. It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
Jacki Weaver
#10. Don't be afraid to reveal that inside you is a seething, fiery core of ambition that would appall Napolean.
Julie L. Cannon
#11. Hell is reimagined by each generation. Its terrain is surveyed for absurdities and remade in a fresher mold; its terrors are scrutinized and, if necessary, reinvented to suit the current climate of atrocity; its architecture is redesigned to appall the eye of the modern damned.
Clive Barker
#12. For where'er the sun does shine,
And where'er the rain does fall,
Babe can never hunger there,
Nor poverty the mind appall.
William Blake
#13. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appall you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.
Patrick Ness
#14. The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#15. So, you let me get through that whole spiel, my entire tirade, but weren't going to let me have the dramatic walkaway, were you?
Kelly Creagh
#16. Let mental culture go on advancing, let the natural sciences progress in even greater extent and depth, and the human mind widen itself as much as it desires: beyond the elevation and moral culture of Christianity, as it shines forth in the Gospels, it will not go.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. I love like a leaky faucet or I love like a dam breaking. There is nothing in between.
Shinji Moon
#18. I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long. I can get lost in the bassline, fascinated with the arrangement, curious about the production. I can't shut it out.
Derek Sivers
#19. You have the right to create an appealing future for yourself; you also have the right to build up an appalling brand. Whichever, you own the value you create.
Israelmore Ayivor
#20. When my mom pulled the trigger my dad had a full house, three fives and a pair of ducks. He was all in. The paper says although dead, he ended up winning seven grand. I once heard someone on tv say we die as we lived. That sounds about right.
David Ebershoff
