Horrible Things Quotes

#1. Some doors remain closed because God is protecting you from the horrible things behind them.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#2. Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

Anthony Kiedis

#3. Thomas knew what he thought. Those images would never leave - the Gladers would be haunted by the horrible things that had happened in the Maze for the rest of their lives. He figured that most if not all of them would have major psychological problems. Maybe even go completely nutso.

James Dashner

#4. I think secrets often come out. I spoke to a friend who is a therapist and I asked her if there were people who came to her and admitted to doing horrible things and she said, 'More than you know.'

Alice Hoffman

#5. but the stories on the edge of civilization are horrible things. They're as cruel and violent as the nastiest fairy tales, but they don't have any hope or happily-ever-afters. They have victims, not heroes. The best you get is to escape and go home.

Richard Roberts

#6. My dad believes that bad disguises itself - that danger hides. I think it's the opposite. The truly horrible things about the world are always reaching out for you.

Brian James

#7. I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

Arthur Golden

#8. But horrible things happen alongside wonderful things all the time. And if you let the horrible things detract from the wonder of the good things, you'll never really feel true happiness.

Leta Blake

#9. One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are.

Tony Kushner

#10. Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen.

Julia Sweeney

#11. Do horrible things to me," she whispers. "Before I do them to everyone else. Please. Please, Lucas.

C.M. Stunich

#12. There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

Dave Matthews

#13. If I'm going to be a pessimist, then I should just stop writing for young people because that's too heavy a burden to put on young readers. But also, I get to meet with people who have waded through horrible things, and they get up every morning, and they try to do their best.

Deborah Ellis

#14. Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

Meg Cabot

#15. He wore a tweed suit, of all horrible things, and a cravat tied with such carelessness it was almost as much a sin as his actions.

Gail Carriger

#16. But when I was quiet ... that made words too. The same words that make horrible things come also tell the quieter things about love.

Andrew Smith

#17. Hopefully as a result of 'The Frozen Ground,' more and more people will be aware of the horrible things that happen to ladies all over the world and give them respect. This movie is a love letter to those victims.

Nicolas Cage

#18. I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.

Sofia Vergara

#19. I am sure every movie I've made, even as an actor, had multiple test screenings. And I am sure there have been horrible things written about me. But I never have to see them!

Chris Evans

#20. I think it is the hardest thing in the world. I'm endlessly intrigued by what human nature is capable of, both the horrible things we are capable of and also the heroic things. I'm really interested in exploring that side of human nature.

Veena Sud

#21. That fool has no idea how to behave in polite society," his friend agreed. Apparently the polite thing to do was lie and insinuate horrible things with impunity, all while never expecting any repercussions.

Larry Correia

#22. I was starting to think maybe there were never any reason for the horrible things people did. None that mattered, anyway.

Kathleen Peacock

#23. I think portraying human beings trying to hold on to their humanity against pretty much certain odds that they'll die horribly in some way someday, and that they'll face horrible things along the way, I don't know - I think that's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderful thing.

Scott M. Gimple

#24. I'd sort of dabbled in Black Magic, not practicing it, but I was interested in it. All these horrible things kept happening to me - a lot of my aunts and uncles started dying and I was seeing all these bloody things visiting me during the night.

Geezer Butler

#25. Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and 'I hope horrible things don't happen to my family,' but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.

Anthony Jeselnik

#26. Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

John Frusciante

#27. I feel like 'CSI: Miami' was just a license to do all sorts of horrible things that I'd always wanted to do.

Emily Procter

#28. WHY CAN'T YOU GO SOMEWHERE ELSE TO DO THESE HORRIBLE THINGS? MY EYES.

Cassandra Clare

#29. I find that religion really does motivate people to do horrible things because they have this passionate faith in whatever their religion happens to be, and it teaches them that the other religion is the wrong one.

Richard Dawkins

#30. The world is full of horrible things that will eventually get you and everything you care about. Laughter is a universal way to lift your head up and say: 'Not today, you bastards.'

Anthony Jeselnik

#31. It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#32. I can't buy the idea that we're supposed to live and learn from horrible things. That somehow these things happen so we can grow as people

Julie Halpern

#33. Of all the people in the world who have miserable lives - and, as I'm sure you know, there are quite a few - the Baudelaire youngsters take the cake, a phrase which here means that more horrible things have happened them than just about anybody.

Lemony Snicket

#34. You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

Matt Forbeck

#35. I can't sleep at night, imagining all the horrible things that could happen. This isn't Pandora's Box. It's Pandora's Nuclear Launch Codes.

Dennis Kunders

#36. There were fireworks the very first night, things that you should be afraid of perhaps, for they might remind you of other more horrible things, but these were beautiful, rockets that ascended into the ancient soft air of Mexico and shook the stars apart in blue and white fragments.

Ray Bradbury

#37. It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.

Janeane Garofalo

#38. VALERIE: .....It isn't your fault. These things, these horrible things just happen.

Cambria Hebert

#39. War does horrible things to human beings, to societies. It brings out the best, but most often the worst, in our human nature.

Richard Engel

#40. Father Chee?"
"Yes, Amber?"
"Why do some people go through life never knowing a single major tragedy, and then others have horrible things happen to them over and over again?"
"I don't know.

Matthew Quick

#41. Sometimes it's liberating to confront horrible things in lyrics as a way to master the shadow-self that exists in everyone.

Jeff Tweedy

#42. We're not living in a one-dimensional society. You can't just talk about, you know, the horrible things in life and the destruction.

Stevie Wonder

#43. At my age, turning gray is kind of a blessing, where it softens all of the other horrible things it does to you, but it is what it is.

Tom Selleck

#44. It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.

Zeljko Ivanek

#45. I feel that people who understand the horrible things that young emaciated models go through really champion the cause of realistic standards in fashion.You only have to see one person suffering to understand how truly horrible the industry is to these girls.

Whitney Thompson

#46. Nick and I, we sometimes laugh, laugh out loud, at the horrible things women make their husbands do to prove their love. The pointless tasks, the myriad sacrifices, the endless small surrenders. We call these men the dancing monkeys.

Gillian Flynn

#47. Often, particularly with voices, you're hearing horrible things, demon voices, and voices telling them that they're not worth it or that they're going to kill somebody. In those moments, they're overcoming things.

Eric McCormack

#48. For true love joins the hearts of two persons with so great a feeling of delight that they cannot desire to embrace anybody else; on the contrary they take care to avoid the solaces of everybody else as though they were horrible things, and they keep themselves for each other.

Andreas Capellanus

#49. It's a historical fact that the Stasi did horrible things and that they monitored a lot of people in East Germany, but I find it very interesting to think about the importance of the Western secret services back then and still working today.

Christian Schwochow

#50. Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny?

Christopher Walken

#51. I think I still have a great sense of adventure and trust, and am surprisingly idealistic given all the horrible things I've seen since I was 25. I think how I have changed is that I have a much deeper understanding of the dark forces in the world, of power.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#52. People say if you face your worst fear, the rest is easy, but those are people who are afraid of rattlesnakes or enclosed spaces, not of themselves and the horrible things they've done.

Alice Hoffman

#53. At what point does a man turn into a monster? I don't believe that it's when he does horrible things, but when he accepts that he's able to do them, and that he does them well.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#54. Within the magical community, most brides are virgins. Do you have any idea how many curses and other horrible things are associated with virginity and virgin bloodshed? For witches, having sex before marriage invites all sorts of evil magic in.

Elizabeth A. Reeves

#55. I'd like to make character-based dramas. I end up writing thrillers a lot - these psychological character-based things with weird people doing horrible things to each other - coming to a theatre near you!

Joseph Mazzello

#56. Even though Education and all sorts of horrible things are going to happen to me. But you want the story. Well, Corin and I were twins.

C.S. Lewis

#57. If you are sentenced to torture for a crime, yes, that is a cruel punishment. But the mere fact that somebody is tortured is - is unlawful under - under our statutes, but the Constitution happens not to address it, just as it does not address a lot of other horrible things.

Antonin Scalia

#58. Whatever horrible things we shall meet on our way, hot deserts or furious oceans, at least we will know that we are on the way and we exist!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.

Camille Paglia

#60. I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

George Saunders

#61. What horrible things would you have to do in your life to get woven into Hades' underwear?

Rick Riordan

#62. We live in a world in which people can do unbelievably beautiful or unbelievably horrible things to other people. And if those horrible acts argue against the existence of God, then the beautify acts must argue for God's existence.

Dennis Prager

#63. The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.

Warren Ellis

#64. I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing.

Bryan Fuller

#65. I waved to everybody. Some of them
even waved back. They knew me, had seen me go by before, always cheerful, a big hello for everybody. He was such a nice man. Very friendly. I can't believe he did those horrible things ...

Jeff Lindsay

#66. There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible.

Auberon Waugh

#67. I want to say that nobody accuses their parents of abusing them without justification to do that. I didn't just make it up. A lot of things were true and abusive and horrible things that happened to me that my father did.

Roseanne Barr

#68. There were stories that the tunnels went for miles. There were monsters down there, blind reptiles and insects that had never seen the light, there were hospitals and brothels, and horrible things, piles of the offal from VC atrocities, dead babies, assassinated priests.

Denis Johnson

#69. I don't know what people who I've never met think about me. Some have written horrible things, some have written nice things - but I'm proud of the fact I've remained close to everyone I've ever worked with.

Ben Elton

#70. Horrible things happen, but were they horrible? No, they were just circumstances of the world.

Brendan Fraser

#71. I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Angelina Jolie

#72. I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

Jodi Picoult

#73. I'm sick of hearing it. I don't think it's right to stand by while innocent people are being tortured. I feel like that's how most horrible things continue to happen. It's because other people don't step in to stop it.

Kris Noel

#74. We're never gonna get rid of crazy people. They've been around for thousands of years - they'll continue to be around; they'll continue to do horrible things.

Michael Moore

#75. Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

Tammy Bruce

#76. You know, as director of the CIA, I got an awful lot of intelligence about all the horrible things that could go on across the world.

Leon Panetta

#77. We are a nation of children letting horrible things happen, and flunking Calc.

Daniel Handler

#78. There's no question that the Republic has done some horrible things to us all, that they might still be doing those things. But ... maybe I've also been seeing the things I want to see. Maybe now that the old elector is gone, the Republic's soldiers have started to shed their masks too.

Marie Lu

#79. War is horrible no matter what. There's going to be atrocities, there's going to be horrible things that happen in war.

Mike Hoffman

#80. Pimlico would attire herself as a woman does when she is loved. For decoration is not given to hide horrible things; but to decorate things already adorable.

G.K. Chesterton

#81. Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#82. Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

Jon Cryer

#83. This, I think, is how people survive: Even when horrible things have been done to us, we can still find gratitude in one another.

David Levithan

#84. What marvel things are waiting for us in the future? What horrible things are waiting for us? Whatever is waiting for us, we always want to be in the future, ready to celebrate and ready to fight!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. You can't tell stories and really walk in someone's shoes and not have a love for them, even if they're doing horrible things.

Shonda Rhimes

#86. I gave up drinking before my twentieth birthday. I haven't touched the stuff since. And I've discovered that not everyone who does horrible things is a horrible person.

Brent Jones

#87. I was really bored and unhappy in school, and I used to act out and do horrible things.

Christina Ricci

#88. Everyone worries about their kids, of course, but you can drive yourself nuts thinking about all the horrible things in the world - and many, many people do. I believe life is to be lived and not survived.

Willie Geist

#89. Suffering is what happens when truly horrible things happen to us.

Cheryl Strayed

#90. Education and all sorts of horrible things are going to happen to me.

C.S. Lewis

#91. You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.

Robert Kirkman

#92. Horrible things don't happen in crowded places; they happen in the hollows of the world, where it's just a victim and an attacker and no one to hear any screams. "Hang

Sara Raasch

#93. I've had so many horrible things happen in my life since I did 'Home Improvement' that it's worried me about doing comedy because - how do I say this - I'm a much darker person than I was.

Patricia Richardson

#94. I've never been a method actress; I've never been that person that wants to imagine horrible things happening in your own life in order to exploit them for your emotional being in the movie. I'm just not good at doing that.

Isla Fisher

#95. I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

Harmony Korine

#96. Percy, lesser beings do many horrible things in the name of the gods. That does not mean we gods approve. The way our sons and daughters act in our names ... well, it usually says more about THEM than it does about us.

Rick Riordan

#97. Why is it acceptable to do such horrible things in the name of staying alive? Would it not have been better had I died with my innocence intact?

Michel Templet

#98. I can think of endless horrible things to do to people!

Eli Roth

#99. He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest - he had seen beautiful things and horrible things - but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.

Michael Ende

#100. The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

Josephine Tey