„I won’t lie, it was awful, but what was worse was slowly realizing how bad I’d been. How close I’d been to becoming . . . a thing. A senseless monster.
Everyone was trying to forget something, but they could never seem to find the way to do it. All they ever seemed to do was make it worse. Such quiet madness, the masses led.
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was.
If you don't make a few ememies now and then, you're a coward-or worse. Besides, it as worth it to see his reaction. Oh, he was angry! - Angela to Eragon
There are things far worse than death, for when it comes to us it is final. What lies beyond it is a matter of faith in what we had hope for.
Change always sounds bad <...> we make it worse by resisting it. Sometimes the only thing worth pursuing is change. How else would we learn anything?
Ari: The serial number was now my new name. I was dehumanized. I was branded like an animal, but was treated worse. This is what racism can do to people.
Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.
There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?
There are people who will always doubt you and you have to live with it. It only gets a lot worse when you have to die with it!
If a painter, then, paints a picture of an ideally beautiful man, complete to the last detail, is he any the worse painter because he cannot show that such a man could really exist?
We may be of the same family, but that is the very reason why we are not friends, for we are rivals for the throne. What quarrels are worse than family quarrels?
You get used to people being a certain way; you depend on it. And when they surprise you, for better or worse, it can shake you to your core.
Feelings can have a life of their own and you have very little direct control over them, except perhaps to make them worse.
My diagnosis," he said "for better or worse, is that your son is the result of an old pharaoh's curse.
Just as love makes you blind so does wealth, and of the two blindnesses wealth is the worse because of the incalculable harm it is able to do to people other than yourself.
Love, it’ll make you feel better before it’ll make you feel worse. So it’s like inverse medicine.
We do not, after all, deal in truths, only potentialities. Too much truth can be worse than death, and last longer.
Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands.
