Quotes about Terrible

Edward Abbey

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

E. Stanley Jones

Suppose you should fail. Is that so terrible? Not to have tried is a worse failure.

Roxane Gay

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

Soren Kierkegaard

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.

Mikhail Bulgakov

Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.

Jodi Picoult

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

Anna Akhmatova

As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future -- a terrible festival of dead leaves.

Cassius Dio

Though a breach was made in the wall by means of engines, nevertheless the capture of the place did not immediately follow even then. On the contrary, the defenders killed great numbers [of Romans] who tried to crowd through the opening and they also set fire to some of the buildings nearby, hoping thus to check the further progress of the Romans. Nevertheless, the soldiers, because of their superstition, did not immediately rush in but at last, under compulsion from Titus, they made their way inside. Then the Jews defended themselves much more vigorously than before, as if they had discovered a piece of rare good fortune in being able to fight near the Temple and fall in its defense.” The populace was stationed below in the court and the elders on the steps and the priests in the Sanctuary itself. And though they were but a handful fighting against a far superior force, they were not conquered until part of the Temple was set on fire. Then they met their death willingly, some throwing themselves on the swords of the Romans, some slaying one another, others taking their own lives and still others leaping into the flames. And it seemed to everybody and especially to them that so far from being destruction, it was victory and salvation and happiness to them that they perished along with the Temple. While the holy house (The Temple) was on fire, everything was plundered that came to hand, and ten thousand of those that were caught were slain; nor was there a commiseration of any age…but children and old men…and priests, were all slain in the same manner….The flame was also carried a long way, and made an echo, together with the groans of those who were slain…one would have thought the whole city would have been on fire. Nor can one imagine anything greater and more terrible than this noise.

Describing the conquest and destruction of Jerusalem and the Second Temple in 70 AD.

Tom Stoppard

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

Og Mandino

I will commit not the terrible crime of aiming too low. I will do the work that a failure will not do. I will always let my reach exceed my grasp.

Orson Scott Card

To have a choice at all is to be free - even when the choice is between two terrible things.

Tara Westover

We think love is noble, and in some ways, it is. But in some ways, it isn't. Love is just love. And sometimes people do terrible things because of it.

Theodore Roethke

How terrible the need for God.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible.

Brittany Howard

I once had this massacred afro in third grade. Parts were bigger than others. It was just terrible.

Victor Hugo

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

Eliot Sumner

I'm a terrible sleeper. I get obsessive, repetitive thoughts and it's horrible.

Danny Wallace

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

Kelvin Sampson

What's an easier way to say 'bad?' Let's go with 'abysmal.'

Chuck Close

I learned you could suffer a terrible tragedy and still be happy again.

Don DeLillo

Because friends have to be brutally honest with each other. I'd feel terrible if I didn't tell you what I was thinking, especially at a time like this

Simone de Beauvoir

immortality is a terrible curse.

Kate del Castillo

It's a terrible thing to make films that are never seen or experienced by audiences. Often times nobody knows about them, even though they are great films. They are not promoted and that's really sad.

Alice Walker

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.

Terrible Quotes