Top 172 Ghastly Quotes & Sayings

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly.

I started singing in the bathroom. Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

Only some ghastly dehumanised moron would want to get rid of the Routemaster.

Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly.

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

In 'The Pianist,' Polanski transformed his ghastly knowledge of the camps into an act of artistic self-expression.

Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

And many more Destructions played In this ghastly masquerade, All disguised, even to the eyes, Like Bishops, lawyers, peers, or spies.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

Oh no, I might catch some ghastly disease.

We have learned by now, or should have, that the best-intended designers of aid programs can make ghastly mistakes in their sophisticated plans.

I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.

There is no question that President Barack Obama should be commended for the successful removal of Assad's ghastly chemical weapons stockpile. But it hasn't been enough.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.

That's the staggering, humorous thing about money. If you haven't got taste, money doesn't matter: You'll always look ghastly.

I started singing in the bathroom, ... Nothing was coming out. It was ghastly.

If you try to measure the future, you will never risk the present. Playing it safe. A ghastly game.

I do try to think if I can afford not to do something I don't want to do, and if I can, then I don't do it, that's for sure. But the consequence of that is that you can be unemployed, it can make you feel ghastly, because you wonder if you will ever work again.

things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

Without meaning to sound anti-men, ghastly women are the closest you get to a male role.

If one's honest about it, spending time in a car with children is pretty ghastly.

Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.

I have never done a package tour in my life. It appeals in a way, but then I remind myself that you can't control the other people with you, which could turn out to be ghastly.

The fact is that a ghastly class prejudice defines our response to the Indian Diaspora.

Oh, I have passed a miserable night, so full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams!

One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes pecked out by crows.

The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.

I won't do 'Strictly' or any of those ghastly reality programmes. 'I'm a Celebrity' would be the end. It makes me shudder.

How ghastly for her, people actually thinking, with their brains, and right next door. Oh, the travesty of it all.

The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen.

I can't think why fancy religions should have such a ghastly effect on one's grammar. It's a kind of intellectual rot that sets in, I'm afraid.

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

For me 'Oliver Twist' is a political novel. It is a furious critique of the treatment of orphans and poor children who were forced to spend their early lives in ghastly institutions.

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.

Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!" it said.

I think marriage is ghastly.

Oh, it's you that owns that ghastly car, is it?

We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac A ghastly parody of real Spring Shaped out of snow and breathed with eastern wind.

The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

As long as those pretty girls notice me, I don't care if they say, 'Ghastly, horrible'... I live for the beautiful angels.

That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

Larry David's armor is his dissatisfaction with the world down to the smallest detail, and up to the whole ghastly arrangement. He won't win, but he'll enjoy losing.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Inspired intellect must endure all kinds of ghastly education.

God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or 12? And what's the recruiting drive?