#terrifying

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

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Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful. ↗

— Frederick Soddy

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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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