A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.
Honore de Balzac

There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore De Balzac

We think it will be shortly afterwards, but it seems a terrible thing to gamble with such big stakes in diplomacy without having your master card in your hand.
Henry L. Stimson

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
Jean Kerr

What a terrible thing to have lost one's mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.
Dan Quayle

It is terrible to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

If you have done terrible things, you must endure terrible things; for thus the sacred light of injustice shines bright.
Sophocles

It's a terrible thing to speak well and be wrong.
Sophocles

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.
Sophocles

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.
Thomas Sowell

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
Jorge Luis Borges

The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

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

I could do terrible things to people who dump unwanted animals by the roadside.
James Herriot

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Kurt Vonnegut

If you do one good thing, that doesn't define you either. Being around the kids in the juvenile center, they were engaging, they made us laugh but they were there for doing something terrible.
Ryan Gosling

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.
Arthur Miller

The laughter of man is more terrible than his tears, and takes more forms hollow, heartless, mirthless, maniacal.
James Thurber