There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering – a hell of boredom.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary… She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind – or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformideable, even pitiable, in its units

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so, because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Every angel is terrible.

I’m really terrible with small children; they’re small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

Her own terror rushed upon me, and in that moment of fear, – the most terrible fear a man can experience, – I knew that in inexpressible ways she was dear to me.

The swift changes in our industrial system are causing equally swift changes in our religious, political, and social structures. An unseen and fearful revolution is taking place in the fibre and structure of society. One can only dimly feel these things. But they are in the air, now, to-day. One can feel the loom of them – things vast, vague, and terrible.

Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible.

I’m terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don’t fit fit. I guess that’s what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly

Anybody can make ‘good’ music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better

I wrote my first song when I was nine, and it was called ‘Notice Me’. My Mom still has the piece of paper around somewhere, but I can’t even imagine how terrible it is.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I profoundly regard writing and hope to pick up knowledge from a book and to distinguish it sincerely from its characters. I accordingly abstain from perusing tension books or sci-fi.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor

The reason why time plays a great part in so many of my tales is that this element looms up in my mind as the most profoundly dramatic and grimly terrible thing in the universe.

No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.

Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you’ve got everything and you’re still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.

It is a terrible thing to look over your shoulder when you are trying to lead – and find no one there.

So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Men, believing in myths, will always fear something terrible, everlasting punishment as certain or probable . . . Men base all these fears not on mature opinions, but on irrational fancies, that they are more disturbed by fear of the unknown than by facing facts. Peace of mind lies in being delivered from all these fears.

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous — even death is terrible only if we fear it.

I can deal with having a terrible night on stage in front a bunch of Glaswegians but not a bunch of Glaswegians and my mum and dad.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.

An ordinary fool isn’t a faker; an honest fool is all right. But a dishonest fool is terrible!

We have this terrible struggle to try to explain things to people who have no reason to want to know.

What we need is imagination, but imagination in a terrible strait-jacket.

Sometimes people only see horrible, terrible things in my paintings.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

It’s probably not just by chance that I’m alone. It would be very hard for a man to live with me, unless he’s terribly strong. And if he’s stronger than I, I’m the one who can’t live with him.

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

We men and women are all in the same boat, upon a stormy sea. We owe to each other a terrible and tragic loyalty.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Without promotion, something terrible happens nothing.

The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.

Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

I see the country going fascist. We have been going that route a long, long time. A lot of things the country has done from its inception were fascist. But now, now I think we are in the face of a terrible fascist dictatorship.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn’t.

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

The most terrifying thing in the world is to accept oneself completely.

All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.

There is nothing more terrible than ignorance in action.

I learned a long time ago that trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times

I hide my emotions mainly because you don’t want somebody to know that you feel sorry for them, because they will feel worse, or because you don’t want someone to know or see your fear. If someone like a sick kid or a burn victim sees your fear, they respond to how you respond. And if you show them it’s terrible, they will get upset. It’s something I’ve learned over the years.

She was six months and not nine pounds. Her skin, you could squeeze it, it stuck together. It was terrifying. Some children who were in a very similar situation to her passed away.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

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

Jail was terrible. It was a nightmare.