Definition of Horrible

Horrible

Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.

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Horrible Quotations

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Edgar Allan Poe

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?
Aldous Huxley

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.
Robert E. Lee

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.
Bertrand Russell

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.
John Frusciante

The part of me which wanders through my mind and never sees or feels actual objects, but which lives in and moves through my passions and my emotions, experiences this world as a horrible nightmare.
Jack Henry Abbott

The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him.
Morgan Freeman

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike

I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
Megan Fox

Well, I did know - but I just wanted the day to pass and the next day to come and then I wanted that one to pass. It was a horrible cycle. I felt so close to having to pack the game in.
Paul Gascoigne

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything.
Anatole France

I never will have peace of mind. I'm not constructed that way. Some things in life can be horrible.
Julie Christie

One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
David Foster Wallace

We think of violence as being conflict and fighting and wars and so forth, but the most ongoing horrific measure of violence is in the horrible poverty of the Third World... and the poverty in the United States as well.
Martin Sheen

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.
John Fahey

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.
Gerard Manley Hopkins

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.
Johnny Rotten

I wouldn't mind meeting some of the people I've attempted to portray from the olden, olden days. They probably would all have really terrible skin and horrible bad breath, and I'd have to give them an Altoid.
Geoffrey Rush

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
Kingsley Amis

It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children.
Kingsley Amis

No wonder people are so horrible when they start life as children.
Kingsley Amis

What makes these creatures so awful is the feeling that they can use us in ways too horrible to imagine-and yet, we DO imagine them, which makes it worse than seeing it.
Sigourney Weaver

I'm fearless, I don't complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.
Sofia Vergara

In the heat of the Russian summer a sleeping car is the most horrible instrument of martyrdom imaginable.
Manfred von Richthofen

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.
Pat Sajak

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Horrible Translations

horrible in Afrikaans is onaangenaam
horrible in Dutch is afgrijselijk
horrible in German is entsetzlich, abscheulich
horrible in Italian is mostruoso, orrendo, spaventoso
horrible in Latin is horrendus
horrible in Norwegian is fryktelig
horrible in Spanish is macabro, abominable

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