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The world is full of terrible things. But there are beautiful things, too, and you're one of them. — Lauren Gilley

It was a terrible thing to be awake while some people flew, carrying the world over his head, and others slept, claiming it from under his feet. — Kiran Desai

Being decent is the only thing that matters in a terrible world like this. — Joe Meno

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. — Winston S. Churchill

He'd never been an optimist. He saw the world as it was, or he tried to. That was a problem, though, when the truth he saw was so terrible. — Brandon Sanderson

We owe it to our children to be better stewards of the environment. The alternative? - a world without whales. It's too terrible to imagine. — Pierce Brosnan

I know that the World is a terrible place, filled with wild animals and evil men and wicked woman. — Pete Hautman

The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible. — Carol Rifka Brunt

I leave the world in terrible turmoil. I come back, same turmoil. Nothing at all different. Well, outfits are a little different ... — Joss Whedon

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III. — Paul Robeson

The world is terrible," said Mark tonelessly. "And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them. — Cassandra Clare

Through all the ways of our unintelligible world, the trivial and the terrible walk hand in hand together. — Wilkie Collins

It was nine o'clock at night upon the second of August - the most terrible August in the history of the world. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Failure is the most terrible thing in our business. When we fail, the whole world knows about it. — Desi Arnaz

A pain exploded up high in her chest and spit her out of this terrible world. — Ann Patchett

The devout belief that the world is explainable is both a terrible vulnerability and a stout shield. — Patricia Briggs

The world was abruptly sharp and clear, too clear, and too alive. It was terrible beyond words. The — Christina Henry

Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. — Catherynne M Valente

I have seen the impossible. I have seen great and terrible wonders, and I tell you, the world is a vaster and stranger place than ever I had reckoned. — Jacqueline Carey

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

It's terrible to be civilized, because when you come to the end of the world you have nothing to support the terror of loneliness. — Henry Miller

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. — Oscar Wilde

Such a terrible word, terminate. A word from a brave new world in which only the flawless are allowed to be born. — Jan Ellison

That the world was silent and cold and bare and that in this lay its terrible beauty — David Guterson

There was peace in stillness, a serenity that couldn't be found anywhere else in this hot, fast, often terrible world. — Seanan McGuire

He had been living in the dark world of his anxieties, and no infliction of reality could seem more terrible than that — Peter Ackroyd

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world. — Baltasar Kormakur

There's nothing more terrible than someone out to do the world a favor. — Terry Pratchett

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II. — William O'Neill

Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother. — Katharine Hepburn

Bruce Springsteen's world is where everybody did these terrible jobs, if they had jobs at all, and he wanted something better. — Bobbie Ann Mason

I'm probably projecting. I'm a projector. For example: The world is not terrible. I just keep thinking it is. — Evan Roskos

What a terrible thing it is to try to let off a little bit of truth into this miserable humbug of a world! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it. — Greg Iles

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives — Alfred De Vigny

I think writing is better in odd or terrible places. It makes the magic all the more wonderful, because you're getting lost in a beautiful world. — Megan Linski

The noise of the world is so terrible that we can endure it only by being coated with sleep. — Saul Bellow

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world — Ron Rash

It's cruel to bring life into this terrible world. — Woody Allen

In too many instances we have settled for a world of our own shaping that is shaping up to be in terrible shape. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

I've never known a situation in my career where a terrible script turned into a movie that was out of this world or was a success. — Leonardo DiCaprio

It's terrible. How can we tell the world who the real Michael Jackson is? — Martin Bashir

Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes ... — Al Gore

But he's wrong, isn't he? Everything isn't always fine. Terrible things happen in this world. Awful things. You have to do your best to prevent them. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

If I could cause world peace by taking someone out to lunch, I'd go, 'Well, war isn't that terrible.' — Gilbert Gottfried

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book ... I forget everything which is terrible in our world. — Francoise Hardy

There are terrible things going on in the world, but I am not going to force them down everyone's throats. — Sam Taylor-Johnson

The world's full of victims and the world's full of terrible perpetrators and I want them identified and caught. — Emily Yoffe

I would say the world's in terrible shape, but I'm afraid the world would say, 'Look who's talking!' — Cass Elliot

America is facing some major threats. Cyber warfare, Islamic terror and Russia, does it sound terrible? It sounds like the end of the world. — Kimberly Guilfoyle

People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen. — Kaitlin Bevis

There's all sorts of terrible things that happen around the world. And comedy's one of those few things where you can discuss those things. — Hasan Minhaj

When we follow the Savior of the world, the Son of God, we flourish and become glorious despite the many terrible circumstances that surround us. — Quentin L. Cook

I'm saying that death is the easiest thing in the world. It's only dying that's terrible. — Gavin Extence

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper. — Augusten Burroughs

The terrible thing about having New York go stale on you is that there's nowhere else. It's the top of the world. — John Dos Passos

Yes, Mom, we're trying to save the world from a crazy guy who's using magic statues to cause terrible weather. — John Bellairs

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. — Frederick Buechner

The world is full of impossibilities - some beautiful, some terrible - but sometimes, when you least expect it, they can become possible. — Lisa Mangum

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units. — Thomas Hardy

In spite of all the terrible things that happen in our world, hope can - and must - prevail. — Anne Fontaine

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

Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt. — Mark Twain

The world was full of awful people who did terrible and ugly things. Most of them were only awful because of the scars on their hearts. — Susie Finkbeiner

My target audience is anyone who finds the world interesting and human behavior fascinating, terrible, inspiring, funny, and occasionally, mysterious. — Amy Bloom

Well, at least I have the satisfaction of having destroyed a terrible monster, and in doing so rid the world of an awful curse. — Griffin Jay

The world is going to keep right on being beautiful and terrible all at once — Emily Henry

So love - aside from being pointless - was agony. Love was a soul-eating demon. Love was the most terrible feeling in the world. — J.T. Geissinger

It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world. — Sylvia Plath

The world is always terrible. — Salman Rushdie

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

It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done! — Paul Auster

The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable. — Francis Quarles

It is a terrible thing to think of the grace that is wasted in this world, — Thomas Merton

We live in a terrible World. Half of the planet is dying of hunger and the other half of cholesterol. — Jesus Quintero

The world is a terrible place for sensitive people but the closer we come to losing our minds, the harder we'll work to keep them. — Kate Tempest

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes. — Alex Gibney

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. — Salman Rushdie

The world is full of monsters, after all. Perhaps the best one can hope for is to have the most terrible on your side. — Joe Abercrombie

He held his hands tightly together and cursed his daughter for bringing the terrible world, with its humiliation and longing, back to his door. — Maile Meloy

I am here through an error - not in this prison, specifically - but in this whole terrible, striped world; — Vladimir Nabokov

This was why love was a terrible idea: it made you weak. And there was no one in the world as powerful as me — Kiera Cass

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea. — Richard Rhodes