Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain de Botton

My feelings about myself have been terrible.
Alvin Ailey

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine

One forges one's style on the terrible anvil of daily deadlines.
Emile Zola

I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless.
Billy Connolly

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.
Cleopatra

It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
Paul Cezanne

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.
Angela Davis

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.
Harry Houdini

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.
Jeanne Moreau

Some children I have met are very beautiful. Some children are imbeciles, vulgar, terrible.
Jeanne Moreau

The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.
Doris Lessing

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.
Doris Lessing

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
Pearl S. Buck

When leading evangelicals say terrible things about Islam, evil things about Islam, terrible things about Muhammad, they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Tony Campolo

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

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