“Love--the most wonderful and most terrible thing in the world.”

“It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, you know, knowing you are loved and wanted.”

Jayne Mansfield (1933–1967) American actress, singer, model

“Love is the most dangerous thing in the world.”

Jennifer Beals (1963) American actress and a former teen model

“The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.”

Charles Kingsley book The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby

“To be lost in spiritlessness is the most terrible thing of all.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”

William Dean Howells (1837–1920) author, critic and playwright from the United States

“.. that terrible feeling that you're not good enough to be loved by the people you love most, and eventually by anyone else.”

Danielle Steel Big Girl

“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

“The most interesting thing in the world, from the standpoint of animal economy—which of course includes human economy—is the wonderful laboratory or factory of the plant…”

Luther Burbank (1849–1926) American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science

“My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.”

Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971) First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union