Things Can Always Be Worse Quotes

#1. That's how luck works, lad.
You can bitch all you like about how things could have been more favorable for you, but rest assured things can always be worse.
Always.

Scott Lynch

#2. All this natural misery," Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. "Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?

Dan Simmons

#3. As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

George Foreman

#4. As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?

Bill Bryson

#5. What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded.
'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.

Joseph Delaney

#6. Find the Silver Lining: When things don't work out the way you wish, always look for some positive outcome to the situation working out the way it did. For example, you can always be grateful that things didn't turn out even worse.

Zelig Pliskin

#7. I've had to ban my mum from coming to see me play. She gets so nervous before any show. I've always got a few nerves but she's so much worse than me. You'd think she'd be able to handle that kind of situation. After all, she is a concert pianist.

Birdy

#8. She could not imagine why these companies all chose shades of blue for their logos. Blue had always struck her as such a serene, soothing color, yet all social media offered was endless agitation and posturing. It was worse than the court of Versailles. Come

Deborah Harkness

#9. MOTHER TIME: The past is always with us, dear, for better or worse. It is what it is and you can't change it. All you can do is learn how to live with it in the present.

Hillary DePiano

#10. There is always someone worse off than yourself.

Aesop

#11. The Palestinians are the only nation in the world that feels with certainty that today is better than what the days ahead will hold. Tomorrow always heralds a worse situation.

Mahmoud Darwish

#12. I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

Elaine Dundy

#13. It's nothing for you to worry about."
"Whenever someone says that," Pandora said, "it always means the opposite. Along with 'It's only a scratch' or 'Worse things happen at sea.' "
"Or," Clara added glumly, 'I'm only going out for a pint.

Lisa Kleypas

#14. One thing I do know is things can always get worse, most often at the precise moment you've decided they can't.

Karen Marie Moning

#15. Indeed, your failure to understand that there are things much worse than death has always been your greatest weakness.

J.K. Rowling

#16. It's always worse than it seems

Unknown

#17. Any fear is always worse than the thing itself.

Josephine Lawrence

#18. That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse.

Jim Butcher

#19. There's always something we can complain about. We're all one. Things could always be better, but things could always be worse.

Marla Gibbs

#20. Blessed be the heart who finds its way to the eternal summer. [ ... to the realisation of eternal gratitude that things aren't worse, because they always can be!]

Frithjof Schuon

#21. There are two things that have been true throughout history in big hunks. You can find differences in ten years, but in 50 year hunks, 100 years hunks, you'll find two things to be true. One, the world is always getting better. Two, people always think it's getting worse.

Penn Jillette

#22. I've always been comfortable thinking things through and doing it, more or less, my way. You can be as creative as you want, but if you're ... unwilling to work on the details, to see those put into action, then creativity is just dreams, or worse, hallucinations.

Aubrey McClendon

#23. Life is not always what we want it to be, but we can color it any way we like, in order to make it the perfect painting, even when things look rough, there is someone out there who has it worse than us.

Gia Russell

#24. Just as We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness. So too we never taste sadness completely, as things could always be worse in some way and for this we can be grateful.

Pierre Corneille

#25. No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

Kirk Douglas

#26. No matter how bad things get, Frannie darling, they can always get worse and they can always get better. Expect worse and you'll never be disappointed.Expect better and you'll always have something to look forward to.

Lorraine Heath

#27. Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.

Seth Klarman

#28. Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long.

Florence Stevenson

#29. And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.

Ursula Vernon

#30. I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#31. Of course, speculation will always make a crisis worse. If there is a weak point, it will expose it.

George Soros

#32. That's even worse. They'll steal it. Then they'll say they didn't steal it, they confiscated it. I know you Feds, you're always confiscating shit.

Neal Stephenson

#33. I prefer to doubt everything. Such a disposition does not preclude a resolute character. On the contrary, as far as I am concerned, I always advance more boldly when I don't know what is waiting me for me. After all, nothing worse than death can happen-and death you can't escape!

Mikhail Lermontov

#34. Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

Tom Lehrer

#35. We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was.

William Golding

#36. You look worse today than you did when you had two black
eyes."
"Why, thank you, Tyler. You always say the sweetest things.

Gwen Hayes

#37. It's hard to care about people when you're always afraid you might lose them. But I think not caring is worse.

Amber Argyle

#38. The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

Dorothy Parker

#39. As you read God's Word, always remember that it is something active, that it is doing something to you, for better or worse. When we hear or read the Word, we are not above it, using it for our own purposes. Rather, in the Word, God is doing something to us.

Anonymous

#40. It's always fun to be able to have a voice, because it helps me to stay in tune with the project and the people that I am working with. Ther's nothing worse than being on a project and not being able to have a voice. I don't like that.

Martin Lawrence

#41. No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.

M. Stanton Evans

#42. Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

Mari Mancusi

#43. I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.

John Owen

#44. Francesca couldn't say anything, because that would just make her mother feel even worse, and so
instead they stood there as they always did, thinking the same thing but never speaking of it, wondering
which of them hurt more.

Julia Quinn

#45. I've learned that things can always suck worse than they did five minutes ago.

Corrine Jackson

#46. Something indefinite is always worse than something definite, a strong fear that doesn't last very long is easier than one that's nebulous but doesn't go away.

Stefan Zweig

#47. By the time I was done with the car it looked worse than any typical Indian car that has been driven all its life on reservation roads, which they always say are like government promises - full of holes.

Louise Erdrich

#48. Theater will always be a huge part of my life. The high I get from doing theater is not, quite honestly, matched by many things. I like the fact that when you step out on the stage, for that given night, for better or for worse, you are the master of the boards. I love it to death.

Chris Pine

#49. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.

Liane Merciel

#50. Why does everything always feel worse at night?

Gillian Roberts

#51. Nut shrugged. Set had always been Set, for better or worse. But he is still part of our family. It is difficult to lose any member of your family ... is it not?

Rick Riordan

#52. I sometimes forget that as bad as you think your family is, there's always someone who has it worse.

Rick Riordan

#53. The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.
It was difficult to come back.

Ian McEwan

#54. Change doesn't always mean instability, you know. Being dormant? Now that's crippling, much worse than change.

Catherine DePasquale