Top 100 Things Get Worse Quotes
#1. Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.
Stephen Chbosky
#2. As things get worse, poetry gets better because it becomes more necessary.
Eileen Myles
#3. Have we forgotten that we're all born the same way: naked, wet, and hungry? Then things get worse!
Barbara Johnson
#4. For a few minutes, everything is so cute that the mind reels ... And then, believe it or not, things get worse. So I shot myself.
Dorothy Parker
#5. Some things get worse when you share them," Jonathan said. "Dad was wise enough not to forget that." Evelyn looked at him and waited, seeming to hope that if he had said this much, he might say more. "Mother," he said, "there is not enough guilt in the world to make me forget it, either.
T. Ellery Hodges
#6. Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#7. In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.
Drew Goddard
#8. The thing about second chances", Mom interrupted, laying a hand on my arm "is we always walk into them assuming we'll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before the ever get better.
Rachel Van Dyken
#9. Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Mignon McLaughlin
#10. The Republicans, they are in the danger of rooting for the country to fail. They look bad that way, I mean, and I want to say to them, cheer up, Republicans. Eventually, things will get worse.
Mark Shields
#11. Don't turn around.
'Cuz you will get punched in the face.
Don't make this worse.
You've already gone and got me mad.
It's too bad, I'm not sad
It's casting over.
Just one of those things you'll have to get over it.
Avril Lavigne
#12. And that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.
Ursula Vernon
#13. 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
#14. the fundamental rule of life: Things were never so bad that they couldn't get worse.
Tommy Wallach
#15. As I move to the front office, I bring the warm copies to my face and breathe them in. This is a weird habit of mine - sniffing copies. I do the same thing when I get a new book. What can I say? I have a paper sniffing problem. Things could be worse.
Autumn Doughton
#16. 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
#17. Well, things can't get much worse
that's one consolation, the Muskrat groaned. He had hidden himself in a forest of bracken in the bathroom, and had wrapped his head in a handkerchief so that nothing should grow into his ears.
Tove Jansson
#18. It is a big deal to work with people who are different from you. And if you're white or of a higher class,no matter what race you are, you'll probably mess up. Maybe get yelled at. But there are worse things. Like keeping your dignity safe at home, while the world goes to hell.
Kelly J. Cogswell
#19. It's interesting, the worse things get in cities, the tougher that cities get, the more brutal the humor is. The tougher [things] people face, the darker the sense of humor gets and I find that incredibly optimistic.
Danny Boyle
#20. I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.
Richard Madden
#21. In the Soviet Union we have a saying, a pessimist is someone who believes things can't get any worse. An optimist thinks maybe they can.
Abel Aganbegyan
#22. She didn't know, but she couldn't shake the fear that the real danger was only just beginning and that things were about to get much, much worse.
C.L. Wilson
#23. I think we're lucky to be living when we are, because things are going to get worse.
David Attenborough
#24. Sometimes you need to know to quit while you're ahead or at least before things get much worse!
Amy Poehler
#26. She thought that things could not get worse . . . but they always can, and often do.
Stephen King
#27. All things by nature are ready to get worse
Virgil
#28. That's one of the remarkable things about life. It's never so bad that it can't get worse.
Bill Watterson
#29. I personally don't think about jumping because things can't possibly get worse... To the contrary, I contemplate it because I believe things probably will.
Tyler Knight
#30. When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done.
Lindsey Buckingham
#31. Strangely, I found the conclusion quite liberating. When you're fucked, you're fucked. Things really can't get much worse. With
Jodi Taylor
#32. You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.
Ernest Cline
#33. The evidence shows you that two things have been true throughout mankind's history: One, things always get better. Two, people always think they're getting worse.
Penn Jillette
#34. It's interesting that the worse things get, the more we believe the next technological fix is going to get us out of it. But it's like being in quicksand: the more you struggle the deeper you sink.
Sam Keen
#35. People do come up to me quite a lot. I get called all of it. I rarely get called my name; it's usually "Hey, Dr. Edwards!" or "Algernon." The most common thing is, "You're the black doctor on that show!" I'll take any of it, because I've definitely been called much worse things.
Andre Holland
#36. It is worse than useless to do things halfway Bee, for then you think the work is done, but someone must come behind you later to do it all over again. Even if you must work much harder and get less done, it is better to do the whole task the first time.
Robin Hobb
#37. If I'd had any way of knowing that things were- as Lily Tomlin once said- going to get a whole lot worse before they got worse, I'm not sure how I would have slept that night.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#38. Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#39. Never EVER say "you and what army?" or worse, and most especially of all never say "things couldn't possibly get any worse"... Because fate always finds a way.
Kathleen L. Shay
#40. 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
#41. Things might not get better but they might not get worse. There's something sort of beautiful about that.
Laurel Nakadate
#42. Things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#43. I don't want someone who's just with me until things get a little too difficult, or something better comes along, or marriage isn't as much fun as it used to be. I want the real thing-for better or worse, rich, poor, sickness, health, forever and ever, amen.
Lisa Wingate
#44. It won't be that simple though, will it?' She sounded wise beyond her years. 'Things are going to get worse before they get better, aren't they?
Richelle Mead
#45. You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.
Alberto Salazar
#46. Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.
Simon Barnes
#47. I'm going out, I'm gonna drink myself to death
And in the crowd I see you with someone else
I brace myself 'cause I know it's going to hurt
But I like to think at least things can't get any worse
Florence Welch
#48. Things get better, or worse, depending on your point of view.
Jay Asher
#49. The law of change says, "Things do not stay the same. If they don't get better, they get worse.
Robert Bolton
#50. I put in my pictures everything I like. So much the worse for the things - they have to get along with one another.
Pablo Picasso
#51. Things that don't get better, get worse.
Ellen Stern
#52. Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.
Eddie Lenihan
#53. You know, if you're going to take me aside when I'm behaving badly, I may start behaving worse. Just to get some attention from you." His eyes briefly catch the light and glow gray-green for a moment. "Possibly even some admiration.
Claire LaZebnik
#55. One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.
Hanif Kureishi
#56. Some things are best left ... unknown, you know? People search for answers and they don't always like what they get. Sometimes the truth is worse than the lie.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#57. There are worse things than being robbed ... " I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. " ... worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.
Neal Shusterman
#58. It's about being proud of who you are, being proud of your situation and just being stoked that things are always going to get better or always gonna get worse and that's such a great thing. Every day is a new surprise.
Bert McCracken
#59. How can you, of all people, say everything will be alright?"
He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm sure things will just get worse,' right?
Wendy Mass
#60. I think that the word bored does not get the attention it deserves. We speak of all sorts of terrible things that happen to people, but we rarely speak about one of the most terrible things of all : that is, being bored, being bored alone and, worse than that, being bored together.
Erich Fromm
#61. Some things you got to release. Gary said. The more you hold them in, the worse you get. When you release them, they got to go somewhere else. The Bible says He can carry all that burden.
Rebecca Skloot
#62. But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse
Cormac McCarthy
#63. If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.
John S. Hall
#64. Wait a minute," Sandra said, sounding skeptical. "You were really stuck?"
Things were starting to get worse.
Her mouth dropped open and she began to laugh - the kind of laugh that would have been music to his ears if she were laughing with him and not at him.
Things were definitely worse.
Jennifer Shirk
#65. You get through bad things - I know, enough bad things have happened to me already. But I don't think getting through one bad time makes it any easier to deal with the next one. If anything, it's worse, because there is happiness to remember.
Jackie French
#66. She doesn't use her neck. She only acknowledges things that come at her head on. And she's one of those people that answer your question before you even get through it. And the answer always begins with No, even if it's Yes. Or worse, No no no.
Bill Callahan
#67. Things tent to get worse, before they got worse
Mary Kennedy
#68. You can't just do one of the things, because it won't be enough to combat the climate change that we're already starting to experience. It will only get worse.
Ed Begley Jr.
#69. Maybe as times get worse we get better. Our pain makes us feel other peoples too; our fear lets us practice valor; we are tense, and tender as well. And among the things we can no longer afford are things we never really wanted anyway ...
Nancy Gibbs
#70. I did not expect to survive that long. Yet two years had gone by and I was not that much worse. In fact, things were going rather well for me and I had gotten engaged to a very nice girl, Jane Wilde. But in order to get married, I needed a job, and in order to get a job, I needed a Ph.D.
Stephen Hawking
#71. Any time someone says "that's it, I'm leaving" I ask them whether they'd prefer to live under US domestic policy, or US foreign policy. As bad as things get inside an empire, they're usually worse in the protectorates.
Jamie Zawinski
#72. Could things get any worse? Why, yes, little one. Be patient.
Morrissey
#73. This thing wants to spread, Henry. It wants to get bad enough - " " - to attract a Prince," I finished grimly. "Some opportunistic son of a bitch out to nail a Princess for the sake of a payoff. I hate Princes. The goddamn things are worse than rats.
Seanan McGuire
#74. Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better
Susane Colasanti
#75. Looking back on my morning, there was definitely GOOD NEWS and BAD NEWS. The GOOD NEWS . . . ? My day had gotten off to such a HORRIBLE start, I was absolutely SURE there was NO WAY things could get any WORSE ! The BAD NEWS . . . ? I was TOTALLY WRONG about the GOOD NEWS!
Rachel Renee Russell
#76. I thought the best thing to do would be nothing, and in that way things couldn't get any worse.
Peter Cameron
#77. The more lines I have, in general, the worse a movie is. It's very rare that I get say great things in fantastic movies. So if you see me as like, number one on a call sheet? In general, that movie is pretty bad.
Matthew Lillard
#78. Things Could Be Worse And Things Could Be So Much Better - that became the game, my running commentary on the streets of Manhattan, and I played it as well as the other slobs just trying to get by.
Joshua Ferris
#79. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Lily Tomlin
#80. When things are at their blackest, I say to myself, 'Cheer up, things could be worse.' And sure enough, they get worse.
Robert Asprin
#81. This was an idea peculiar to Camille, Maximilien thought, that the worse things get, the better they get. No one else seems to think this way.
Hilary Mantel
#82. If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
Namie Amuro
#83. And I know things have to get worse before they get better.
Stephen Chbosky
#84. If you're feeling bad for any reason, going to the mall always makes you feel worse. It's so glarey and noisy. The stores are full of things you think you might like until you get close and see how stupid they are.
Betty Miles
#85. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.
Neko Case
#86. That is to say, things have a way of getting worse and worse all the time, until in the end they get so bad that we lack even the means of knowing how bad they really are.
Robert Silverberg
#87. 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
#89. When traveling in rural Africa, it's important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.
Josh Gates
#90. How many times did he have to learn that things could always get worse? His
Madeleine Roux
#91. No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.
Francesca Lia Block
#92. Even when you're down, there is still hope. No matter how bad things get and no matter how small a hope there is, anything is better than nothing, No matter how bad things get, they can always, ALWAYS get worse. Take my word on that.
Christina Engela
#93. I'm not as optimistic as Gene Roddenberry was. I fall somewhere in the middle. But as a romantic, I like to think things are going to get bigger rather than worse.
J.J. Abrams
#94. As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better."
"Or worse," said Liraz.
"Yes," he conceded. "Usually worse."
Hazael cut in. "My sister, Sunshine, and my brother, Light. You two should rally the ranks. You'll have us killing ourselves by morning.
Laini Taylor
#95. In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves.
Luciano Berio
#96. There's people who think what they need and what they deserve in their lives is a lot worse than what they actually do, so they get themselves involved in things that are needlessly painful: brutal relationships, abusive relationships.
Adam Duritz
#97. The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it's going to bother you ... and then, the worse things get.
Frank Zappa
#98. First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
Ellen Glasgow
#99. Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
Bob Dylan
#100. I take great comfort in the fact that they might kill me before things actually get worse.
Bridget Jones
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