Dreadful Quotes

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor.

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

I'm a dreadful romantic. No matter what I go through in life, I want to fall in love with a man.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP they have run out of better ideas.

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.

My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.

Composers today get a TV script on Friday and have to record on Tuesday. It's just dreadful to impose on gifted talent and expect decent music under these conditions.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base of this dreadful masterpiece.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.

Even having to do the amount of press that I have to do is dreadful and gives me so much anxiety. After having done this whole slew of press for 'Big Love,' now I'll have anxiety dreams for like a week and a half about all the stupid things I said.

My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Television doesn't want to admit it has those dreadful roach ads on anyway.

It was dreadful. They tried to put the little redhead in a cage.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens.