Terrible Thing Quotes (page 6)

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• things
• about
• really

The really terrible thing about being young is the triviality Ursula K. Le Guin

• little
• alone
• thoughts

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable. Jhonen Vasquez

• dark
• people
• darkness

People do terrible things to each other, but it's worse in the places where everybody is kept in the dark. Tom Stoppard

• trust
• baby
• look

Are you asking us to impregnate all the females on all the ships with your DNA, so that you can be sure of having progeny?"No!" said Ram in horror. "What a terrible thing for a woman, to wake up pregnant- a violation of trust. It would destroy all nineteen colonies."Not to mention being embarrassing when all the babies look like you. Orson Scott Card

• life
• forgiveness
• you me

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me? Oscar Wilde

• helpful
• thoughts
• you me

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it’s a terrible thing. I’m broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me Kate DiCamillo

• saying
• child
• sayings

Child. That was a terrible thing to say to anyone who was almost thirteen. Terry Prachett

• personality
• thinking
• personal

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities. Oscar Wilde

• may
• animal
• people

but ignorance is a kind of insanity in the human animal. People who delight in torturing defenseless children or tiny creatures are in reality insane. The terrible thing is that people who are madmen in private may wear a totally bland and innocent expression in public. Akira Kurosawa

• lost
• terribly
• things

To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all. Soren Kierkegaard

• wonder
• world
• wonderful

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

• good
• people
• good people

Sometimes good people have to do terrible things. Orson Scott Card

• him
• together
• broken

[That wall] might be breached sometime in the future, but for now the only real conversation between them was the roots that had already grown low and deep, under the wall, where they could not be broken. The most terrible thing, though, was the fear that the wall could never be breached, that in his heart Alai was glad of the separation, and was ready to be Ender's enemy. For now that they could not be together, they must be infinitely apart, and what had been sure and unshakable was now... Orson Scott Card

• alone
• evening
• thinking

You think I have more than most people dream of? What other people dream of doesn't matter. I always had less than I ever dreamt of. All I ever dreamt of was family. A father and a mother. Most people don't even need to dream of such luxuries, they take them for granted. That is what I used to dwell on, alone in my bedroom. I dwelt as all children do, on the injustice. Injustice is the most terrible thing in the world, Oliver. Everything that is evil springs from it and only a cheap soul can... Stephen Fry

• writing
• words
• enough

They writes some bits o’ their letters in them wee codies. That’s a terrible thing tae do to a reader. It’s hard enough readin’ the normal words, wi’oot somebody jumblin’ them all up. Terry Prachett