“If you don't kill yourself right away when something terrible happens ... if you go on living, you become a different person.” IfsPersonsDifferentHappensGriefGoes OnTerribleKilling Yourself Author:Faith Sullivan
“Sometimes ... we find that even when we do our best to serve the Lord, we still suffer. You may know someone who faces these most challenging of circumstances: consider the parent whose child becomes ill, for whom everyone prays and fasts with all their heart and soul, but who ultimately dies. Or the missionary who sacrifices to go on a mission, then develops a terrible illness that leaves him or her severely disabled or in chronic pain.” KnowsHeartMayChildrenStillsSoulSometimesPainFacesSufferingDiesParentChallengesLordSacrificeGoes OnPrayingCircumstancesTerribleAdversityIllIllnessMissionsMissionaryDisabledHeart And SoulChronic Pain Author:David E. Sorensen
“That's the sad thing about it, is that you don't know. And you certainly don't know when you quickly meet somebody. But even as you know somebody longer, it's really hard to know. Obviously you go on your gut feeling but that can be wrong too. ANd it's terrible to have to be wary about people, because it is not my nature, but I've been burned a few times and you just have to careful.” PeopleKnowsHardFeelingsGoes OnTerribleCarefulGutsBurnedSad ThingsGut Feelings Author:Joan Jett
“Michael [Douglas] is, I think, a great actor. He's made some very interesting pictures. When he was going to college, I was very proud of him, but when he said, 'Dad, I want to be in a play,' he had a bit part. I went to see it and Michael said, 'Dad, how was I?' I said, 'You were terrible.' I thought he would go on to be a lawyer and in three months, he was in another play and I went and, I must admit, he was great. I think he has been good in everything he's done.” ThinkingWantHas BeensMadeSaidDonePlayThreeActorsBitsInterestingCollegeMonthsGoes OnProudDadTerribleLawyerVery InterestingThree MonthsGreat ActorsGoing To CollegeProud Of Him Author:Kirk Douglas
“As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.” YearsFacesWishWhiteHairGoes OnTerriblePreparedShockBe PreparedGetting OldGetting OlderEighteenWrinklesWhite Hair Author:Audrey Hepburn
“What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death.” MayReasonMomentsPainJoyGoes OnTerriblePhotographyCrueltyFleetingObsceneMoments Of LifeBefore Death Author:Nobuyoshi Araki
“Obviously, in a friendship there are always things, good and bad, that go on between people. You can't take away what's already happened. And if it's something that's really terrible, I think you have to forget about the friendship.” PeopleIfsThinkingForgetHappenedGoes OnTerribleGood And Bad Author:Natalie Portman
“When you have large-scale legitimated violence in a place that is divided as profoundly and bitterly as Kentucky was, the legitimate violence can cause illegitimate violence, a terrible local heartlessness and cruelty that feeds on itself and goes on and on.” CausesViolenceGoes OnTerribleScalesLocalsCrueltyDividedKentuckyLarge ScaleHeartlessness Author:Wendell Berry
“I've never told anyone this. But I suffer from terrible stage fright. True. You can't tell though, can you? Unbelievable, the panic. I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig. It'd make me vomit.” I CanSufferingDiesStageGoes OnTerribleWickedPanicUnbelievableGigsFrightTrue YouStage Fright Author:John Lydon