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Awful Quotes - Page 11

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.129, Seven Stories Press

I'm honest. It's the world that's awful.

George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.693, Bantam

If you're doing nonsense it has to be rather awful, because there'd be no point.

Edward Gorey (2001). “Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey : Interviews”, Houghton Mifflin

It struck her all at once that dealing with other human beings was an awful lot of work.

Anne Tyler (2001). “Back when We Were Grownups: A Novel”, Knopf

In that moment it dawned on me that everything has to line up perfectly for something to turn out this awful.

Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.161, Thomas Nelson Inc

All I know is just what I read in the Congressional Record. They have had some awful funny articles in there lately. As our government deteriorates, our humor increases.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.57, Rowman & Littlefield