"Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint."
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Terrible
508 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Novelist
"He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized."
Mikhail Bulgakov
Novelist, Playwright
"Cowardice is the most terrible of vices."
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Writer, Journalist
"It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged."
Tom Waits
Singer-songwriter, Actor
"I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things."
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"Publicity can be terrible. But only if you don't have any."
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"Untouchability is a terrible reality."
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"It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it."
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"We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own."
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"Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana."
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"All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings."
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"It's terrible to lose somebody, but it's also true that some people never have anybody to lose, and I think that's got to be so much worse."
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"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
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"How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!"
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"Terrible is the temptation to be good."
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"If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache."
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"The terrible tyranny of the majority."
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"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
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"Love is a wonderful, terrible thing"
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"When someone asks me about my diet I feel terrible saying that I don't really have one."
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"I'm terrible on facts. But I always have an idea. If you have an idea, you're well ahead"
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"Our eyes are full of terrible confessions."
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"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."
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"What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously."
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"If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife."
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