„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 American actress, singer, model 1933 - 1967

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

—  Jennifer Beals American actress and a former teen model 1963

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

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

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

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

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

—  William Dean Howells author, critic and playwright from the United States 1837 - 1920

„.. 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) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman 1533 - 1592

„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 American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926

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

—  Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894 - 1971

„The plant laboratories in which this wonderful and vitally essential transformation is effected are chiefly located in the leaf of the plant… the thoughtful person must regard this structure—the most ordinary green leaf of tree or shrub or vine or the tiniest blade of grass—as in some respects the most wonderful thing in the world.“

—  Luther Burbank American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultural science 1849 - 1926

„Life, even the hardest life, is the most beautiful, wonderful, and miraculous treasure in the world.“

—  Pitirim Sorokin American sociologist 1889 - 1968

„Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible.“

—  Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich

„The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.“

—  Chuck Palahniuk, libro Invisible Monsters

„Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made it possible for me to go on…“

—  Nicholas Sparks, libro The Rescue

„Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.“

—  Howard Zinn author and historian 1922 - 2010

„Cowardice is the most terrible of vices.“

—  Mikhail Bulgakov, libro Il maestro e Margherita

„She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.“

—  Milan Kundera, libro Amori ridicoli

„To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.“

—  Sören Kierkegaard Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813 - 1855

„I tell you, commander, it's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for the best, especially if there is some god involved.“

—  Terry Pratchett, libro Snuff