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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
'Penny Dreadful' is so realistic. The tonality is so earthy and so real that I actually believe it is in the realm of possibility for all these extra species to exist among us.
It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror--on thethings that I might have avoided.
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies! — © Friedrich Nietzsche
That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!
With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.
Madness is the emergency exit. You can just step outside, and close the door on all those dreadful things that happened. Forever.
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name.
I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.
Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!
Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
Whatever lessons we take from this dreadful attack (on the World Trade Center and Pentagon), we should never forget that it was, after all, a faith based initiative.
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justified by a superficial view.
The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don't see any scars on Archie Manning.
I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror. — © Dafydd ap Gwilym
I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror.
From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
It's so dreadful to have nothing to love - life is so empty - and there's nothing worse than emptiness.
It was really dreadful to be so different from other people…and yet rather wonderful, too, as if you were a being strayed from another star.
It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and not leave one person behind you who is sorry you are gone,' said Anne, shuddering.
It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.
Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.
Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.
Unbelievable, George Michael has died at the age of 53. RIP.This dreadful year goes on and on.So sad, a real talent.
Dreadful is the mysterious power of fate; there is no deliverance from it by wealth or by war, by walled city or dark, seabeaten ships.
Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.
Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex.
There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples.
Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
The Democrats have concocted this whole phony 'war on women' narrative simply to mask their dreadful record on the economy and jobs.
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.
Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.
Well, life is dark, isn't it? Mostly, it's dreadful. At the same time, death is funny too. I mean, look at the fuss we make of it.
"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."
As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Even the dreadful martyrdom must run its course Anyhow in a corner, some untidy spot Where the dogs go on with their doggy life
The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history — © Charles Kennedy
The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history
I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word "lost."
The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self the more you do.
It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
If you get involved with something on stage that makes you feel dreadful, that's a nightmare because you have to repeat it every night.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
When discord dreadful bursts the brazen bars, And shatters iron locks to thunder forth her wars.
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. — © Claire Tomalin
Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
Promotions are a short-term solution with dreadful long-term effects.
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and not one friend.
Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.
...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.
Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.
I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.
It's always bad news when a player gets injured - dreadful news.
Given a little time for the pain to subside, dreadful experiences often can be the basis of funny jokes or stories.
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.
Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head.
That day of wrath, that dreadful day. When heaven and earth shall pass away.
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