Quotations
Quotes:
Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
View quotes by Emma Goldman
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.
View quotes by Katherine Mansfield
There is truth in Jesus which is terrible, as well as truth that is soothing; terrible, for He shall be Judge as well Saviour; and ye cannot face Him, ye cannot stand before Him, unless ye now give ear to His invitation
View quotes by Henry Melvill
When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon
But small, appear most long and terrible. (Oedipus)
View quotes by Nathaniel Lee
It is well that war is so terrible - we would grow too fond of it
View quotes by Robert E Lee
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't... All reactionaries are paper tigers.
View quotes by Mao Tse-Tung
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth.
View quotes by Alfred Adler
All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
View quotes by Cleopatra
What I have in common with the character in ‘Truman’ is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
View quotes by Jim Carrey
American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
View quotes by James Baldwin
Real friends are very special, but you have to be careful because sometimes you have a friend and you think they are made of rock, then suddenly you realise they're only made of sand. It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side when you haven't.
View quotes by Maria Callas
If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
View quotes by Jean De La Bruyere
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
View quotes by Robertson Davies
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
View quotes by Pope John Paul II
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
View quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.
View quotes by Arthur Miller
Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way.
View quotes by Ralph Nader
A woman who can cope with the terrible twos can cope with anything.
View quotes by Judith Clabes
Les enfants terribles. Lit. the terrible children.
View quotes by Gavarni
Well, I've had a terrible week. I've had that, erm, Anthrax, have you had that? Diarrhoea, blood in the urine, the liver was disintegrating... and i found the only thing that really helped... was Lemsip. Just took the edge off.
View quotes by Harry Hill
