Things Could Always Be Worse Quotes

#1. There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.

Beth Ditto

#2. 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

#3. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself - things could always be worse and they are for someone else!

Richard L. Evans

#4. Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.

Meg Rosoff

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

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

Aesop

#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. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

George Foreman

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

J.K. Rowling

#17. 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

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

Elaine Dundy

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. It's always worse than it seems

Unknown

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

Jim Butcher

#24. Be thankful for even the little things in your life. Be brave & strong to overcome your troubles ... for it could be better but it could always be worse!

Timothy Pina

#25. Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

Alexander McCall Smith

#26. When things are bad, we take a bit of comfort in the thought that they could always be WORSE. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get BETTER.' - Malcolm S. Forbes.

Rachel Renee Russell

#27. 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

#28. In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

Mac Anderson

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

Ursula Vernon

#31. 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

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

George Soros

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Tom Lehrer

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

William Golding

#37. 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

#38. 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

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

Dorothy Parker

#40. 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

#41. 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

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

M. Stanton Evans

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

Catherine DePasquale

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

John Owen

#45. 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

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

Corrine Jackson

#47. 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

#48. 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

#49. 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

#50. 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

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

Gillian Roberts

#52. 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

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

Rick Riordan

#54. 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