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What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

What is terrible when you seek the truth, is that you find it. You find it, and then you are no longer free to follow the biases of your personal circle, or to accept fashionable clichés.

What I understand by "philosopher": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger.

What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.

When you have a good script you're almost in more trouble than when you have a terrible script.

When you discriminate against anyone, you discriminate against everyone. It's a display of terrible intolerance.

When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one.

Without publicity a terrible thing happens: nothing.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Why go around dating random girls and having terrible sex when you can be with someone you really like?

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

You don't have good community relations in Chicago. It's terrible. I have property there. It's terrible what's going on in Chicago.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!

[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

You can feel that something terrible is going on in another place in the world, and it's the other, it's not you. It's always there, it's them. But this them is also you.

You don't get a lot of life milestones in show business. It's really difficult to make things, and a lot of times you don't know you're at the end of something. With Mr. Show, I was only a writer and we knew we were going into the movie, and we thought, "Okay, like Monty Python, we're going to make five movies." And we didn't know it was the end. So it ended up being a bummer and such a terrible ending for Mr. Show. We never got to feel like, "Wow, we did it! We did something.

Wouldn't it be much worse if life really were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us happen because we really deserve them?

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

You see, that is the sad, sorry, terrible thing about sarcasm. It's really funny.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

You're the nicest boy ever,", I told him, feeling undeserving and terrible. "You didn't have to get me anything. I like thinking about you thinking about me when I'm not around.

A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence

As for the comparatively small class of violent crimes against persons, unconnected with any idea of gain, they were almost wholly confined, even in your day, to the ignorant and bestial; and in these days, when education and good manners are not the monopoly of a few, but universal, such atrocities are scarcely ever heard of.

A terrible independence opens the door to destructive power of sin

A where's honest

Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.

C'etait un jour de fete. Mais l'haine se repete. Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur, Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur

Don’t complain of terrible circumstances. It has been proven several times that they are the sources of celebrated trophies.

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially “unlike” man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

from - Your Life is Worth Living: If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almost killinng me was one of those thingss—and another list of all the good, heroic, brave things he had not done, and then decided that he was tired. Tired, not just of living, but of existing. Tired of being Al.

Henry,' at last said one, again dipping the spoon into the flaming spirit, 'hast thou read Hoffman?' 'I should think so,' said Henry. 'What think you of him?' 'Why, that he writes admirably; and, moreover, what is more admirable - in such a manner that you see at once he almost believes that which he relates. As for me, I know very well that when I read him of a dark night, I am obliged to creep to bed without shutting my book, and without daring to look behind me.' 'Indeed; then you love the terrible and fantastic?' 'I do,' said Henry. ("The Dead Man's Story

Alas! how terrible it is to know, Where no good comes of knowing!

Behind those happy eyes, you hide a mind that is terribly chaotic and that's what makes you, so beautiful.

Even for the very clever it can be like breaking bones to stand back from something that’s been in front of you all your life.

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary

He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss, that I'm about to fall down into him, into blackness so empty and lonely there'd never be a way out. "Todd," I say again, a catch in my voice. "On the ledge, under the waterfall, do you remember what you said to me? Do you remember what you said to save me?" He's shaking his head slowly. "I've done terrible things, Viola. Terrible things-" "We all fall, you said." I'm gripping his hand now. "We all fall but that's not what matters. What matters is picking yourself up again.

His hands on the sides of her face, on her neck, holding her there. "Chessie...shit, Chessie, I love you so bad." His teeth on her throat, biting hard, his lips soothing the spot. "So fucking much, so...so bad.

I ain't...Don't know how to say it up right. Never--Fuck, Chess. Thought you was dead once before, you recall? Never felt so bad in my life, not ever. Then on the other day, thought you was gone and just....I can't do it, bein without you.

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

...How terrible, those dreams before sleep were—the worse kind, mixing hope with despair...

I don't know what love can do for the terrible things of life.

I’m not into danger, either.” “Aw, Chess. You so into it you ain’t climb out with a rope. Why else you do your job, live down here, buy from Bump?” “It’s just—I mean—I just do, is all.” Her cheeks burned. She shouldn’t have let him come in here. She should have just sent him home and let him wash his stupid shirt himself. “No shame in it. Some of us needs an edge on things make us feel right, else we ain’t like feeling at all, aye?

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person.

I have a message for your daughter,” said Cale. “I am bound to her with cables that not even God can break. One day, if there is a soft breeze on her cheek, it may be my breath; one night, if the cool wind plays with her hair, it may be my shadow passing by.” And with this terrible threat he faced forward and the procession started once more. In less than a minute they were gone. In her shady room Arbell Swan-Neck stood white and cold as alabaster.

Perhaps this is why not one of 800 sexologists attending a conference raised a hand when asked if they would trust a thin rubber sheath to protect them during intercourse with a known HIV-infected person. I don't blame them. They're not crazy, after all. Yet they're perfectly willing to tell your generation that "safe sex" is within reach and you can sleep around with impunity. It is a terrible lie.

I've got a secret for you," she whispered with n unpleasant grin on her face, "Something terrible is going to happen. Something terrible... and something wonderful.