Awful Quotes

“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
― Epicurus

“Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought
something awful was happening.”
She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could have
got stuck in my hair.”
― Derek Landy, Dark Days

“It’s bad for your business to refuse change when the technology is changing, but it’s worse for your business to fight the technology.”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“It's tough when anyone is hurt, it's painful and awful.”
― CLAMP, Kobato 04

“Oh my life is so awful, it's just so awful to be me, you don't know what it's like waking every morning and finding the whole horror of being yourself still there.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“You're awful,' Florian hissed out between chuckles. 'You're a vile creature.'

'Herr Leickenbloom, please.' Johann smiled easily. 'Don't underestimate me. I'm more than vile; I'm an honest-to-god monster.”
― Jennifer Giesbrecht, The Monster of Elendhaven

“The maddened four men followed frantically, for it is better to be in the presence of the awful than only within hearing. ("The Black Dog")”
― Stephen Crane, The Portable Stephen Crane

“I was always moved when mean people were suddenly nice to me. It was a weakness that would lead me into some bad relationships later in life.”
― Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals

“He's handsome, but that makes his horribleness worse, somehow. As though he's taken something nice and made it awful. Being the single focus of his attention made me feel like a bug that a child was going to burn with a magnifying glass.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“You're awful.' He said it as though he was delighted. 'And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.”
― Holly Black, The Lost Sisters

“What is awful is at once appealing and repulsive, it fascinates and generates disgust, and those who succumb to the awful can only escape it at the price of ennui, of boredom.”
― Hubertus Kohle, Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst

“...if his cruelty had the sharp edge of despair, if slights and taunts were all that fell from his tongue now, what did it matter? He had always been awful. Now he was just worse.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“It was confusing and awful and made her want to break things.”
― Claire Kann, Let's Talk About Love

“I can't tell you—oh I can't tell you—how awful—how sort of unlivable—everything is now—like a great black wall in front of me—Something's got to smash.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“His smile dimmed, and he dropped his voice to a whisper. 'This is a real secret. You can't tell anyone. When I was little, I glamoured my mortal sister. I made her hit herself, a lot of times, over and over, and I laughed while she did. It was awful of me, and I never told her that I regretted it. I am afraid of making her remember. She might get really mad.”
― Holly Black, The Stolen Heir

“There's work to do.”
― Alien Ant Farm

“If you’re waiting for a path to emerge magically before you actively start building your dream, you’re going to be waiting for an awfully long time.”
― Richie Norton

“But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“There is a pleasure in being with them,' he says. 'Taking what we want, indulging in every terrible thought. There's safety in being awful.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Though I knew I had the potential to do this locked in me like a poisonous pet snake, I knew I didn't have the part of a person you must have to turn that potential kinetic, to be the kind of person who can let their awful plow.”
― Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing

“Everything just sounds awful to me.”
― Deyth Banger

“Now I am playing this game of being nice… UGHH it's awful.”
― Deyth Banger, Jokes From C

“Yup,... she is a dirty awful whore.”
― Deyth Banger, Jokes From C

“Mama gazes at her own hands while I listen to what an awful kid I am.”
― Eireann Corrigan, Remedy

“The words from months ago that Nesta had tried so hard to forget swarmed from the darkest pit of her memory, each one stinging. You have become a pathetic waste of life.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“He did not remove me from the situations I created and the path that I chose, nor did He nullify the awful consequences of those decisions. He let me choose my path, and He allowed things to unfold in their natural sequence so that I could see the fruits of my decisions, but He was there for me every step of the way.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Her breath tasted like the awful punch he had made”
― Jane Washington, Plier

“Here is what we'll do," he says. His voice is soft and light, as if we are making the sort of mischievous plan we made as children. "When The Mothers get home, you go to bed early, and when I get back I'll sneak in your back door and come to your room. And then I'll hold you all night.”
― Laura Nowlin, If He Had Been With Me

“Then she changed the subject and asked about Jochen abd how his day had been and had he said anything amusing, so I told her, all the while sensing a kind of weakening in my bowels - as if I needed to shit - provoked by a sudden and growing worry about what was lying up ahead for me and a small nagging fear that I wouldn't be able to cope.”
― William Boyd

“Then she changed the subject and asked about Jochen and how his day had been and had he said anything amusing, so I told her, all the while sensing a kind of weakening in my bowels - as if I needed to shit - provoked by a sudden and growing worry about what was lying up ahead for me and a small nagging fear that I wouldn't be able to cope”
― William Boyd, Restless