Top 25 Terrible Quotes of 508 - Page 2

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

When a relationship doesn't work anymore, it's terrible to stay with someone that you don't love.

Monica Bellucci

Terrible

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

Stefan Zweig

Terrible, Humans, Knows

Stefan Zweig (2009). “Selected Stories”, p.64, Pushkin Press

A corrupt society is terrible for humanity and great for business.

Farhan Akhtar

Humanity, Corruption, Terrible

Twitter post from Oct 19, 2012

A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Marcel Marceau

Waste, Terrible, Mime

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

Victor Hugo

Life, Les Mis, Terrible

"My midlife crisis has focused me on what to do between now and death" by Clare Allan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2010.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

Kingsley Amis

World, Strikes, Terrible

Kingsley Amis (1990). “The Amis collection: selected non-fiction, 1954-1990”, Arrow

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible.

Patrice O'Neal

People, Terrible, Fairs

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

Woody Harrelson

Believe, People, Terrible

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Terry McMillan

Terrible, Conclusion, Landing

Terry McMillan (2006). “The Interruption of Everything”, p.412, Penguin

Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

Roman Polanski

Feelings, Terrible

"The Cinema of Roman Polanski: Dark Spaces of the World". Book by John Orr and Elżbieta Ostrowska, 2006.

I hit my head against the wall because I don't want to know all the terrible things that I know about. I don't want to feel all these wretched things, but they're in me already. If I don't get rid of them, I'm not ever going to feel anything else.

Ntozake Shange

Wall, Want, Terrible

To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing.

Hypatia

Superstitions, Truth Is, Terrible

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Doris Lessing

Inspirational, Truth, Terrible

Doris Lessing (1973). “The Grass is Singing”, p.52, Heinemann

I'm terrible. I'm the wrong person to talk to, I really don't know a thing.

Cillian Murphy

Wrong Person, Terrible, Persons

"#ManCrushMonday: Cillian Murphy on Playing a WWII Assassin and Returning to 'Peaky Blinders'". Interview with Julie Kosin, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 15, 2016.

If you cannot endure to be thought in the wrong, you will begin to do terrible things to make the wrong appear right.

Sydney J. Harris

Acceptance, Endure, Terrible

Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse.

Barbara Kingsolver

Thinking, People, Terrible

Barbara KingSolver (1988). “The Bean Trees: A Novel”, Harpercollins

How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!

Stefan Zweig

Beautiful, Darkness, Terrible

Stefan Zweig (2015). “The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig: Burning Secret, A Chess Story, Fear, Confusion, Journey into the Past”, p.55, Pushkin Press

Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.

Jorge Amado

World, Wonderful, Terrible

Jorge Amado (1988). “Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon”

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

Alice Herz-Sommer

Music, Play, Terrible

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Sarah Paulson

Terrible, Terrible Things

Source: www.ign.com

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

John F. Kennedy

Three, Headache, Terrible

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

Anna Akhmatova

Past, Festivals, Terrible

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward (1997). “Избранные Стихи”, p.149, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Bertolt Brecht

Temptation, Terrible, Be Good

Bertolt Brecht (1960). “Plays: The Caucasian chalk circle, translated by J. and T. Stern, with W.H. Auden. The threepenny opera, translated by D.I. Vesey and E. Bentley. The trial of Lucullus, translated by H.R. Hays. The life of Galileo, translated by D.I. Vesey”