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  • In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do? -- Lynda Barry
  • All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way. -- Patrick Warburton
  • I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that comes with that time in a person's life. It was definitely some different subject matter to be writing about, especially knowing some of my audience are second and third graders. -- Jeff Kinney
  • I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies. There I decided that my big aim was to make money. And it was there that I became a very determined woman. -- Susan Hayward
  • Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another? -- Peter De Vries
  • It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy. -- Louise Doughty
  • Marriage is a step so grave and decisive that it attracts light-headed, variable men by its very awfulness. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Oft in my way have I stood still, though but a casual passenger, so much I felt the awfulness of life. -- William Wordsworth
  • I feel like a lot of my aesthetic was in response to feeling the awfulness and cheapness of that [ the 70'th]. -- Daniel Clowes
  • In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys. -- Maggie Stiefvater
  • I suppose I really seemed mad, then; but it was only through the awfulness of having said nothing but the truth, and being thought to be deluded. -- Sarah Waters
  • Forgiveness is taking seriously the awfulness of what has happened when you are treated unfairly. Forgiveness is not pretending that things are other than the way they are. -- Desmond Tutu
  • A dim consciousness of infinite mystery and grandeur lies beneath all the commonplace of life . There is an awfulness and a majesty around us, in all our little worldliness . -- Albert Pike
  • Such things as anguish, woe, affliction, guilt, feelings of awfulness, and utter wretchedness, the bread and butter of Days of Yore and Russians, sadly have very little staying power in these lickety-split Modern Times. -- Marisha Pessl
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