Obelmäker is a deeply fearful person and terribly indecisive. Even when he makes a choice, it’s usually bad.
It's a terrible thing for a man when his woman gangs up on him wi' a toad
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
You're terribly selfish, you know. I've loved you so long, and it was never dear or precious to you. I might as well have not loved you at all.
I would have killed myself years ago if it weren't for the fact that I’m pretty sure death is the only thing more terrible than life.
Could there be anything more sad and more lonely than remembering what terrible things the future will bring?
It struck Mort with sudden, terrible poignancy that Death must be the loneliest creature in the universe. In the great party of Creation, he was always in the kitchen.
Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.
Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.
Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.
There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.
Your brother was a terrible traitor, I know, but if we start killing men at weddings they’ll be even more frightened of marriage than they are presently.
But was not an aesthetic criterion that Flashjack, as a faery, had terribly high on his list of priorities; it was well below and nowhere near .
I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be terribly happy.
Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.
One of the terrible fallacies of contemporary psychotherapy is that if people would just say how they felt, a lot of problems could be solved.
People don't believe in gods because they can't wrap their minds around the idea of someone allowing all the terrible things in the world to happen.
If that was the last event of the night, it would have made a terrible ending. It was just the beginning, though.
Perception in the eye of vengeance becomes blurred. Ren was in need of a slap on the face, but I knew what was coming and that it would do the job properly.
I almost feel bad for declining, but I feel more terrible that I can’t stop looking at how his chest rises and falls with each of his frustrated breaths.
Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.
