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The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master. — Robin S. Sharma

Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible. — Neale Donald Walsch

I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life. — Gene Robinson

Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often - and in my inmost self perhaps all the time - I doubt whether I am a human being. — Franz Kafka

I got very depressed. Hollywood can be a terrible place when you're depressed. The pits. I decided I had to change my life and do different things. — Jeff Conaway

How terrible, Jack thought, to be old and know that your life has been wasted. — Ken Follett

You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes. — Anton Chekhov

The powe if fate is something terrible. It cannot be escaped
not with wealth or by war,
not with a tower ir a sea-lashed black ship. — Sophocles

This is my one and only life, and it is a great and terrible and short and endless thing, and none of us come out of it alive — Cecelia Ahern

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government. — Colin Powell

Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with. — Quentin Tarantino

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back — Sara Gruen

We'd turn our lives into a terrible adventure. A true-life horror story with a happy ending. A trial we'd survive to talk about. — Chuck Palahniuk

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God — Blaise Pascal

Life is filled with doing terrible things and those who want to survive definitely have to do the worst of them. — Livio Gambarini

You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave. — Jodee Blanco

One must say Yes to life and embrace it wherever it is found - and it is found in terrible places; nevertheless, there it is. — James Baldwin

For the first time in my life I tasted death, and death tasted bitter, for death is birth, is fear and dread of some terrible renewal. — Hermann Hesse

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival. — Yann Martel

The food in this place is really terrible. Yes, and such small portions. That's essentially how I feel about life. — Woody Allen

Life must be terrible for working people, considering they spend every Friday night celebrating a two day break from it. — Robert Black

The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

To outlive one's child is a terrible thing, but to do so because your child has taken his or her life is horrible. — Pierre Salinger

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case. — Gore Vidal

To have all your life's work and to have them along the wall, it's like walking in with no clothes on. It's terrible. — Andrew Wyeth

The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise godfearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The real horror of my life is not that I've killed some terrible people. The real horror is that the people I've loved didn't love me back. — Caroline Kepnes

Pride is a wonderful terrible thing a seed that bears two vines life and death. — James Hurst

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do. — Hans Zimmer

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person. — Chelsea Handler

A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life. — Cheryl Strayed

That happens in life sometimes, doesn't it? Something terrible happens and you think it's the worst thing ever and then it turns out to be the best. — Sarah Morgan

It is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life. — Phyllis Bottome

Only the other day, Robbie had gone to a terrible disco in Alness, hoping it would transform his life in some way. — Michel Faber

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny. — Andre Malraux

But that age ... exerts on us
An almost terrible charm,
Like the memory of things seen
And a life lived in dreams. — Heinrich Heine

And that was freaky to think about, how life could go from wonderful to terrible in the blink of an eye. — Lauren Myracle

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. — Erica Jong

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. — Sam Shepard

...something terrible can happen to you, and yet, the day after this something terrible, the sun still rises, and life goes on. And so must you. — Martin Short

War takes a terrible toll on people, on families. And if war doesn't, then just ordinary life does. It changes them forever. — Ann Rinaldi

I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man. — Pat Conroy

Just because today is a terrible day doesn't mean tomorrow might not be the best day of your entire life. You just have to wake up and get there — Pete Wentz

And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times. — Pat Conroy

The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life. — Victor Hugo

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. — Paul Hoffman

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life. — Eugenio Montale

Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible! — William Shakespeare

Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential. — Saul Bellow

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it. — Oscar Wilde

Possibility of enjoying life makes death feel terrible. — Santosh Kalwar

It's one of the biggest scandals of life, to learn that the cruelest thing someone could say to you was you were a terrible kisser. — Marisha Pessl

Stay calm inside! You will then see that outside storms of life, even the most terrible ones, will turn into soft winds. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Terrible things can happen in this life but being in love changes everything. It gives you something to hold on to. — Judy Blume

The human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows. — Agnes Sligh Turnbull

That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The terrible price of living, ain't it? To live through others dying? — J.D. Jordan

My life was sweeter than other people's and my death will be more terrible by the same degree. — Franz Kafka

Yes, Lex was her friend. Yes, she wanted to help him out. But Terrible ... he wasn't her friend, he was her life. — Stacia Kane

Is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

White shall not neutralize the black, nor good compensate bad in man, absolve him so: life's business being just the terrible choice. — Robert Browning

I remember my own childhood vividly ... I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them — Maurice Sendak

I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life. — Trevor McDonald

There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened. — Michel De Montaigne

When life is unhappy it is hard to endure, when it is happy it is terrible to think of it ending. Both amount to the same thing in the end. — Jean De La Bruyere

Life ... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive. — Cecelia Ahern

Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible. — Leo Tolstoy

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible. — Wallace Stevens

As the seventeenth-century French philosopher Montaigne once said, "My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened. — Kristin Neff

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange. — Johnette Napolitano

My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes - most of which never happened. Mark Twain — Jack Kornfield

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen? — Maggie O'Farrell

A terrible depression yesterday. Visions of my life petering out into a kind of soft-brained stupor from lack of use. — Sylvia Plath

Well, well, my dear. Are we so brokenhearted as that? Is the loss of that terrible prince really worth your life? — Serena Valentino

As a person with terrible handwriting, I love the computer. I've waited all my life for the computer. — Janet Fitch

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it — Jean Anouilh

People say life ain't fairlife is very fair. People aren't fairpeople are terrible. — Patrice O'Neal

It deals with that most terrible and harrowing experience in life - trying to remember an address which somebody told you but you didn't write down. — Douglas Adams

I'm genetically programmed to be a terrible person. — Rainbow Rowell

The Savior accomplished the Atonement, which resolves the most terrible burdens that can occur in this life. — Quentin L. Cook

A love that is twisted is a terrible thing. One thing worse than that is a life without any love at all. — Kendra Sunderson

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life? — Tommy Rettig

Life has been fair, destiny may have staged it well but the timings were terrible. — Parul Wadhwa

Life is bearable even when it's unbearable: that is what's so terrible, that is the unbearable thing about it. — Geoff Dyer

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. — Michel De Montaigne

Tragedy allowed the audience to experience intense, sometimes disturbing emotions that could not be experienced in real life without terrible cost. — Barry B. Powell

I would start drinking something terrible if I were in a situation where I was surrounded by lies or quiet or secrets. It's just not a real life. — Angelina Jolie

It is unfair that life doesn't come with a rewind button; an undo button that can reset time after you make a terrible mistake. — Melissa Ford

My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible. — Kevin Eubanks

Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other. — Barbara Pym

Life is like a moustache. It can be wonderful or terrible. But it always tickles. — Nora Roberts

To be continued is a terrible thing, I know. But life is to be continued. You want to be continued as long as possible. — Aaron Starmer

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard. — Alex Bosworth

It was almost like this terrible thing had made life a little better. — Kiera Cass

There should be so much more, not of orange, of words, of how terrible orange is and life. — Frank O'Hara

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us.
"Is it not terrible? — Alice Hoffman

Even the most terrible beginnings can turn into beautiful endings when the direction is changed. — Apoorve Dubey

For a poet, it will be terrible if there are no women. He will not have anything to write about. — Debasish Mridha