Top 100 More Terrible Quotes
#1. My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree.
Franz Kafka
#2. The news media is so quick to pick up tragic stories of imperiled children that it seems like there are more terrible events today than ever before - when in fact it's quite the opposite. It is, in all manners possible to calculate, the safest time in the history of civilization to be a kid.
Gever Tulley
#3. The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.
Edward Abbey
#4. Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.
Mark Lawrence
#5. No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero
Frank Herbert
#6. I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still.
Oscar Wilde
#7. Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter'd in one day, and I the elder and more terrible.
William Shakespeare
#8. My only doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and mystery which seemed closing around me.
Bram Stoker
#9. No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H.P. Lovecraft
#10. A space was quickly cleared in the crowd, and a rope placed about his neck, when from somewhere came the suggestion, "Burn him!" It ran like an electric current. Have you ever witnessed the transformation of human beings into savage beasts? Nothing can be more terrible.
James Weldon Johnson
#11. The soul's illness is more terrible and more difficult to understand than the illness of the body or any other type of malady.
Krishnananda Saraswati
#12. To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not want to be. As things are, however, the whole ghastly burden is suspended from me by a thread which I can cut in two with a penny-knife.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#13. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them. "Why
Mark Lawrence
#14. One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Joan Of Arc
#15. There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.
Barry Humphries
#17. I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.
Saul Bellow
#18. Pride destroys all symmetry and grace, and affectation is a more terrible enemy to fine faces than the small-pox.
Richard Steele
#19. The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death
Charles Dickens
#20. Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas Carlyle
#21. Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby
#22. An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
Pope John Paul II
#23. Sometimes it's more terrible and more stupid to sit, paralyzed, as events slip past you. A certain kind of guardian angel must watch over fools as they rush in.
Christina Bartolomeo
#24. Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake.
Edgar Wallace
#25. No one ever saw anything more terrible or beautiful. Luckily
C.S. Lewis
#26. There is no more terrible woe upon earth than the woe of the stricken brain, which remembers the days of its strength, the living light of its reason, the sunrise of its proud intelligence, and knows that these have passed away like a tale that is told ...
Ouida
#27. No pain, no death, is more terrible to a wild creature than its fear of man.
J.A. Baker
#28. When they told me my new-born babe was a girl, my heart was heavier than it had ever been before. Slavery is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#29. Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
Veronica Roth
#30. DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."
MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister.
Neil Gaiman
#31. The ordinary, utterly mundane reason behind the massacre makes it somehow more terrible, and far more depressing. The word 'senseless' springs to mind, and Idris thwarts it. It's what people always say. A senseless act of violence. A senseless murder. As if you could commit sensible murder.
Khaled Hosseini
#32. The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber
#33. Whatever you do, whatever you redo, it all ends up here. Some things are just unavoidable. No matter how hard you try, the things meant to go to shit still go to shit. Terrible things happen, Micah, and you can't stop them. You just can't."
So you just do more terrible things.
Amy Zhang
#34. "Out, damned spot!" That is the true cry of human nature. That stain cannot be removed without blood and that which is infinitely more, and deeper, and profounder, and more terrible than blood, of which blood is but the symbol - the suffering of Deity.
G. Campbell Morgan
#35. The inward battle
against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past
is more terrible than outward battle.
Sivananda
#36. Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons
new and uncertain nations
new pressures of population and deprivation.
John F. Kennedy
#37. I have seen tyrants come and go, and each seems more invincible and more terrible than the last. They all fail. Empires arise and crumble. What matters is what each of us do where we are, when we are.
Christopher R. Taylor
#38. Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.
Aldous Huxley
#39. NO!
The scream was the more terrible because he had never expected or dreamed that Professor McGonagall could make such a sound.
J.K. Rowling
#40. The pain was shrill enough, but the idea of a finger of mine twitching about, lost in chicken-pecked dust, was more terrible.
Daniel Woodrell
#41. There was, for many of us, a great escape in reading about the fantastic and supernatural during wartime. Terrors more terrible than those we were living through gave us an outlet for our anxiety.
M.J. Rose
#43. Much has been written of love turning to hatred, of the heart growing cold with the death of love. It is a remarkable process. It is far more terrible than anything I have ever read about it, more terrible than anything I will ever be able to say. I
James Baldwin
#44. Again minute followed minute and hour followed hour. Everything remained the same and there was no cessation. And the inevitable end of it all became more and more terrible. "Yes,
Leo Tolstoy
#45. [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
Flannery O'Connor
#46. Enough of satire; in less harden'd times
Great was her force, and mighty were her rhymes.
I've read of men, beyond man's daring brave,
Who yet have trembled at the strokes she gave;
Whose souls have felt more terrible alarms
From her one line, than from a world in arms.
Charles Churchill
#47. It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.
Victor Hugo
#48. Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#49. All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.
Stefan Zweig
#50. There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor.
Terry Pratchett
#51. We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.
Albert Schweitzer
#52. People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
Barbara Kingsolver
#53. I noticed that some of my deadness was being replaced by an intense feeling about the Greek stories and the Bible stories. They were similar. There was something naked about these stories. Terrible things happened, and then some more terrible things.
Susanna Kaysen
#54. Is there anything more terrible than perpetual motion, than doing and doing and doing, without a reason, without a consciousness, without a change, without an end?
T.H. White
#55. Life wasn't for lamenting what you'd lost. It was for enjoying what you had, for however long you got to have it. While it was always terrible to lose those precious to you, it was far more terrible never to have had them at all.
Sabrina Jeffries
#56. I suppose people move on, history moves on, and there will, sadly, always be something more terrible waiting around the corner.
Hazel Gaynor
#57. Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
#58. Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis
#59. The scientific and technological discoveries that have made war so infinitely more terrible for us are part of the same process that has knit us all so much more closely together.
Lester B. Pearson
#60. What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
Scott Russell Sanders
#61. F it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.
Fulton J. Sheen
#62. There's a kind of terrible stress that makes you eat three pieces of coconut cake, but there's an even more terrible kind of stress where you can't bear the thought of eating anything at all" -Autumn
Claudia Mills
#63. The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.
Heinrich Heine
#64. To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#66. There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
Heinrich Heine
#67. The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without.
Mahatma Gandhi
#68. The expectation of an unpleasantness is more terrible than the thing itself.
Marie Bashkirtseff
#69. There is nothing more terrible than a spurned faery queen, particularly if you defy her a second time. I escaped the Winter Court with my life intact, but just barely, and I won't be returning anytime soon. My loyalty - and my heart - belongs to another queen now.
Julie Kagawa
#70. Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.
Kingsley Amis
#71. There are much more terrible things than physical injury.
J.K. Rowling
#72. Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.
Thomas Browne
#73. I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov
#74. It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.
Anais Nin
#75. Oh no.' Straight raised his eyes to me, and a slight smile touched the corners of his lips. 'A philosophy of life is more terrible than syphilis and people - you have to give them credit - take every precaution not to become infected. Especially by a philosophy of life.
Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky
#76. The wind,
Tempestuous clarion, with heavy cry,
Came bluntly thundering, more terrible
Than the revenge of music on bassoons.
Wallace Stevens
#77. Something more terrible than a hell where one suffers may be imagined, and that is a hell where one is bored.
Victor Hugo
#79. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering
a hell of boredom.
Victor Hugo
#80. American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Baldwin
#81. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. Winston Churchill (1901)
Ian Kershaw
#82. As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
Wallace Stevens
#83. No, no, you have none of you any idea. This is all nonsense, fantasy, it is not like this. Nothing so blood-curdling and becreepered and crude - not so ... so laughable. The truth is quite other, and altogether more terrible.
Susan Hill
#84. To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.
Thomas Merton
#85. I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can't stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.
Alex Rosa
#86. The knowledge of rejection, of being unwanted, is more terrible to live with than anything else, and a rejected child will usually never get over it.
Jennifer Worth
#87. Mind is a dark fathomless ocean, and every time I sink into it, this world fades, replaced by one far more terrible and beautiful in which I will happily drown. - New York Times Book Review
Neil Gaiman
#88. My trepidation was growing more terrible by the minute. "Why did you do this? Why have you brought me here?"
"Why?" He repeated with a slow and heated appraisal that made me acutely, almost painfully, conscious of my sex. "Bon Dieu! Are you not woman enough to know?
Victoria Vane
#89. There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
Frank Herbert
#90. Was he being devoured by one of those secret rages, all the more terrible because contained, and which only burst forth, with irresistible force, at the last moment?
Jules Verne
#91. The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#92. Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.
Alex Sargeant
#94. People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
G.K. Chesterton
#95. People think that human beings have gotten worse, that because of the pressures that modern society puts on us, we've gotten worse, and we've gotten capable of doing more terrible things. I don't know if I necessarily think that that's true.
Thomas Gibson
#96. He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that
Peter Ackroyd
#97. There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death.
C.S. Lewis
#98. To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry
#99. The weaker the player the more terrible the Knight is to him, but as a player increases in strength the value of the Bishop becomes more evident to him, and of course there is, or should be, a corresponding decease in his estimation of the value of the Knight as compared to the bishop.
Jose Raul Capablanca
#100. Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.
Onasander
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