Terrible Things Quotes

I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

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.

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised.

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This stuff happens.' We're not trying to pretend like terrible things don't happen, that uncomfortable situations, uncomfortable behavior, unhealthy behaviors don't occur in our daily lives.

It is easier to look the other way. But if you do, terrible things can happen.

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.

But in his experience it was only a matter of time before the normal balance of the universe restored itself and started doing the usual terrible things to him.

Kangaroos are crazy and can do all sorts of terrible things.

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

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.

There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things.