Awful Quotes

The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

To realize that the Holy Scriptures are a revelation from the Most High, communicating to us His mind and defining for us His will, is the first step toward practical godliness. To recognize that the Bible is God's Word, and that its precepts are the precepts of the Almighty, will lead us to see what an awful thing it is to despise and ignore them.

Failure is not fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse.

Then there is the worst part of Christianity, which is awful: power, corruption, manipulation... But then again, these feature are ever present in any organization.

Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that's not too awful either, but never, never give up.

Can you imagine how terrible it is when you've got everything and you're still desperately lonely? That is awful beyond words.

Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

Broken people say awful things and do incredibly absurd things.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Friends see most of each other’s flaws. Spouses see every awful last bit.

Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.

I think it's very amazing that I do horror films when I had this awful childhood. But maybe that's why I'm good at it.

I have an awful lot to learn. My dream is to get better and better as I get older.

Not from a vain or shallow thought His awful Jove young Phidias brought.

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.

Humor is really one of the hardest things to define, very hard. And it's very ambiguous. You have it or you don't. You can't attain it. There are terrible forms of professional humor, the humorists' humor. That can be awful. It depresses me because it is artificial. You can't always be humorous, but a professional humorist must. That is a sad phenomenon.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

How awful that the artist has become nothing but the after-dinner mint of society.

I started to realise that being impolite saves an awful lot of time and costs you nothing.

You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it.

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly.

I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

When you start paying people to be poor, you wind up with an awful lot of poor people.

It's an awful risky thing to live

I was against it on two counts. First, the Japanese were ready to surrender, and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing. Second, I hated to see our country be the first to use such a weapon.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

Sometimes awful things have their own beauty.

Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.

Occasionally, when I get mad at a woman, I'll do some great, awful painting about her.

Our sin reached its full horror and found its most awful expression in the cross.

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't feel tragic at all, but only weary, and sort of comfortably detached.

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short,
and thus to diminish its horrors.

Life has been good to me. It's not like I missed an awful lot. I had a pretty good lick here. Every moment gets a little more important.

I may have had a tough break, but I have an awful lot to live for.

Even now I can't trust life. It did too many awful things to me as a kid.

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

What about Tom Jones? He's made a million and he's a bloody awful singer.

The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result.

Making the big shot wouldn't feel so good if missing it didn't feel so awful

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

How many times had those awful words - "I know what I'm doing" - been uttered throughout history as prelude to disaster?