Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
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Variant: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to her future husband, John Middleton Murry (July 1917), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. I
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer
Source: After You'd Gone
“There were many terrible things in my life and most of them never happened.”
Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman
Ransom Riggs book Miss Peregrine's Home of Peculiar Children
Prologue, Page 18
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2011)
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html: <br class="br">Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. <br class="br">Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.
“A terrible thing has happened to me: I believe I am finding God.”
Albert Gleizes (1881–1953) French painter
Quote of Gleizes, 1918; as cited by Daniel Robbins, in Albert Gleizes 1881 – 1953, A Retrospective Exhibition, published by The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1964 - in collaboration with Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris & Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund
remark to his wife Juliette Roche during the winter of 1918 at the Gleizes' rented house in Pelham, New York
1910s
“Wake me when what terrible thing is going to happen, happens, or if it appears I might get wet.”
Garth Nix (1963) Australian fantasy writer
Old Kingdom series (The Abhorsen Trilogy), Abhorsen (2003)