Guilt's a terrible thing. [ Ben Jonson ]
And thou art terrible - the tear,
The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier;
And ail we know, or dream, or fear
Of agony, are thine. [ Halleck ]
No enemy is so terrible as a man of genius. [ Disraeli ]
Ah, what a sign it is of evil life,
Where death's approach is seen so terrible! [ William Shakespeare ]
Nothing is more terrible than active ignorance. [ Goethe ]
If thou art terrible to many, then beware of many. [ Ausonius ]
The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible. [ Victor Hugo ]
Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action. [ Goethe ]
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
The pomp of death is far more terrible than death itself. [ Nathaniel Lee ]
It is a terrible thing to be obliged to love by contract. [ Bussy-Rabutin ]
If death be terrible, the fault is not in death, but you. [ Proverb ]
Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward. [ Seneca ]
Death hath nothing terrible in it but what life hath made so. [ Proverb ]
Death! to the happy thou art terrible;
But how the wretched love to think of thee,
O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! [ Southey ]
The laws of nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. [ Longfellow ]
One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie; for an excuse is a lie guarded. [ Pope ]
The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. [ Charles Mildway ]
To die, I own, is a dread passage - terrible to nature, chiefly to those who have, like me, been happy. [ Thomson ]
The law is a pretty bird, and has charming wings. It would be quite a bird of paradise if it did not carry such a terrible bill. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Without settled principle and practical virtue, life is a desert; without Christian piety, the contemplation of the grave is terrible. [ Sir William Knighton ]
Exile is terrible to those who have, as it were, a circumscribed habitation; but not to those who look upon the whole globe as one city. [ Cicero ]
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous, of the passions: it is the only one that includes in its dreams the happiness of some one else. [ A. Karr ]
For it comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him. [ William Shakespeare ]
Life is arid and terrible; repose is a chimera; prudence useless; reason itself serves only to dry up the heart. There is but one virtue - the eternal sacrifice of self. [ George Sand ]
Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible, be daily before your eyes, but death chiefly; and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. [ Epictetus ]
Commonsense punishes all departures from her, by forcing those who rebel into a desperate war with all facts and experience, and into a still more terrible civil war with each other and with themselves. [ Colton ]
When a man's pride is subdued it is like the sides of Mount Etna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top. [ Beecher ]
Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]
Young women, the glory of your life is to do something, and to be something. You may have formed the idea that ease and personal enjoyment are the ends of your life. This is a terrible mistake. Development, in the broadest sense and in the highest direction, is the end of your life. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]