What is terrible?

Famous quotes containing the word terrible:

    I see now that we store him up
    year after year, old suicides
    and I know at the news of your death,
    a terrible taste for it, like salt.
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
    —E.M. (Edward Morgan)

    That cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.
    Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)