Terribleness Quotes

#1. No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have this feeling, that if not for that essential terribleness we could have gotten further by now. Done better. Done more.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. VARANASI TRAFFIC is shambolic. It's a humbling reminder that the British drive on the left side of the road and we (Indians) drive on what's left of the road. "The traffic is not terrible at all," wrote novelist Geoff Dyer. "It is beyond any idea of terribleness. It is beyond any idea of traffic.

Guru Madhavan

#3. He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#4. The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. There is no beauty, if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

Marlene Dumas

#6. Words have to murder reality before they can hold it captive ...

Simone De Beauvoir

#7. If Lincoln were alive today he'd be turning over in his grave.

Gerald R. Ford

#8. I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.

Mark Haddon

#9. Those who have found God in the cross of Jesus Christ know how wonderfully God hides himself in this world and how he is closest precisely when we believe him to be most distant.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#10. Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.

Nita Leland

#11. You are not the first, and will not be the last, to say so. I wear my "warped" label with pride.

Jessica Park

#12. A common pickpocket trick is for the operator to carry a shawl or overcoat carelessly over the left arm, and to take a seat on the right side of the person they intend to rob in a streetcar or other vehicle.

Harry Houdini

#13. No one knows loneliness like an atheist. When an average person feels isolated, he can call through the depths of his soul to One who knows him and sense an answer. An atheist cannot allow himself that luxury, for he has to crush the urge and remind himself
of its absurdity.

Jeffrey Lang

#14. If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.

Robert Merrill

#15. I love dark chocolate. I love it.

Emma Roberts

#16. But why? Why did you do the evil things you did?' Billy asks suddenly.
'Ah, because I could not imagine consequences,' the Professor says. 'To do harm, to live through evil, is to align oneself with chaos. Now it is the same chaos which is slowly destroying me.

Joe Meno

#17. I'm just really a lazy homebody.

Amy Brenneman