Terribleness Quotes

“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself. Finally, you get just too tired, and the news is too awful, and humor doesn't work anymore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“His mind is like that: always mired in a terrible future.”
― Karen Thompson Walker, The Dreamers

“Oh, Stephen, Stephen, get used to the world--—it's a horrible place full of horrible people, but it's all there is, and we live in it, don't we?”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“Simpler than conspiracy was Carney's take: In general, people were terrible.”
― Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto

“The South must be a terrible place.”
― Kathleen Collins, Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?

“Museums suck," said Billy.

The bus rattled along between tan fields.

"Right?" said Charlie.

"History," said Higgins. "Shit like that.”
― Luis Alberto Urrea, The Water Museum

“My own agonies, which I once thought comic, have become more terrible with the passing of time.”
― Theodore Roethke, Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke