Famous quotes containing the word ghastly:
“Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“like a ghastly rapid river,
Through the pale door
A hideous throng rush out forever,
And laugh—but smile no more.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)