Worse Quotes

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other people (whether they were really all as stupid as they seemed).”
― Victoria Schwab, Vicious

“Why, if its going to be allright, do we see it getting worse every day?”
― Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember

“I wasn't sure which was worse - to know you were a liar or to believe your own bullshit.”
― Eileen Cook, The Hanging Girl

“Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?”
― Hannah More

“Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse."
"Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said.
"Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.”
― Margaret McMullan, Sources of Light

“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.”
― Finley Peter Dunne

“...if I couldn't be better than my enemies, then I would become worse. Much, much worse.”
― Holly Black, The Queen of Nothing

“...if his cruelty had the sharp edge of despair, if slights and taunts were all that fell from his tongue now, what did it matter? He had always been awful. Now he was just worse.”
― Holly Black, How the King of Elfhame Learned to Hate Stories

“The dementors affect you worse than the others because there are horrors in your past that others don't have.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“Life is like the drama on a stage.
What was once declared as a sin,
perhaps much worse nowadays.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Sexual Harassment: Forgetting is difficult, remembering is worse.”
― Nitya Prakash

“There is nothing worse than being in a relationship where you believe your partner is cheating, but you cannot prove it because the cheating happens out of sight!”
― Steven Magee

“This is not another story of some street rat getting sober or “putting his life together.” I didn’t put my life together, God did. Every time I tried to put my own life together, I made things worse. No, I am not the protagonist of this story—God is; from page one, until the day I die. He has always been the hero, He has always brought the hope. My story was written by and centers around the God who restores, redeems, and makes all things new.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Whenever we choose an alternative (whether it is taking a new job or moving to Des Moines for month), we are automatically rejecting every other possible choice. All those rejected alternatives are paths to possible futures where things could be better or worse than the path we chose. There is potential opportunity cost in any choice we forgo.”
― Annie Duke, Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts

“The masses don't have a clue about how bad climate change really is. It is driving the pandemics and increasingly severe weather events and things are going to get much worse than what we have already seen.”
― Steven Magee

“For some, the river flooding was worse than hurricane Ian!”
― Steven Magee

“Chemical exposure at high altitude is typically worse than at sea level.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Climate change is accelerating, there are no doubts about that. It is driving the pandemics and they are going to get worse. There has never been a more important time to have good human nutrition to stave off the worst effects of the pandemics.”
― Steven Magee

“Corrupt police officers are bad and a fraudulent police internal affairs department is even worse!”
― Steven Magee

“The reality is the pandemics are getting worse and that will reduce the population. The smart people who figure out pandemic immunity will be the survivors.”
― Steven Magee

“The preparation for something worse is typically the very thing that makes it exactly that.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There is nothing worse than wondering when your car is going to break down next and how much the repair will cost!”
― Steven Magee

“Secrets are bad news, Nicholas. In the end, they're only make you feel worse.”
― Emma Törzs, Ink Blood Sister Scribe

“Africa is not getting better but it is getting worse because its government and leaders are suffering from plausible deniability. That is what is destroying Africa.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“Rand managed a weak smile. Of all things he might want to think about right then, the Mayor's daughter was far down the list. He did not need any more confusion. For the past year she had been making him increasingly jittery whenever they were together. Worse, she did not even seem to be aware of it. No, he certainly did not want to add Egwene to his thoughts.”
― Robert Jordan, The Eye of the World

“It could have been worse,” I venture.
“How precisely?”
I think about it. “I’m not entirely sure, but most things can be worse.”
― Angela Slatter, Red New Day & Other Microfictions

“Making the world a better place is not making the world my better place.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The worst of us can never stand in the way of the best of us.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The duty of pain is to change you, either for better, or for worse.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Stamerenophobia