ghastly quotes

Ear byth egle eorla gehwylcun. The grave isghastly to every man.

-Anonymous
?c.900  The Rune Poem, l.90.

What we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith.Themore weknowofthelaws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to beand the non-necessity of it.

-Thomas Hardy
  Letter to Edward Clodd, 27 Feb.