Awful Quotes - Page 4

I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

My friend Mercedes Pena made me get in touch with my emotions just before I had a breast cut off. Just as I suspected, they were awful. "How do you Latinas do this all the time in touch with your emotions?" I asked her. "That's why we take siestas," she replied.

I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

The original vocals had an awful lot of work put into them at the time, and I wasn't really sure that I could better them - I don't know if I have bettered them.

I think that human beings are the most awful monster we have ever seen.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.

I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.

I'm fascinated by the awful, awful things that human beings do to each other.

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful.

The terrible importance of this life is that it determines eternity.

There's a difference between, you know, God loves unconditionally in my feeling and religion loves conditionally. Religion spends an awful lot of time dictating who God can love and can't love.

We wouldn't want to be like the Swiss, would we? That would be awful! We'd be rich!

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.

The way we're currently educating people about heroin is to say that heroin is so awful. Heroin is not so much the problem. It's when you combine it. It's hard to die from heroin alone.

This stuff tastes awful; I could have made a fortune selling it in my health-food store.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

The 'Hemingway curse' was such a huge, awful thing for me to have to deal with. . . . The reality is, because there are genetic tendencies toward mental illness, you need to be aware of them.

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that love was loss, that nothing worth saying was sayable, that dullness was general, that disintegration was irresistible.

I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.