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1 " She closed her eyes briefly, feeling sick. Olivia had experienced strangulation before. Having to look directly into the face of the person who was killing you made the experience beyond awful. But there were worse things than that. Staring into the void of unresolved memory, living an eternal mystery, waking up night after night seeing the face of someone you desperately wanted to save but having not the slightest clue how to do it—all that was worse. If going through with this experience gave her the answers she needed, if it gave her peace, it would be well worth one-hundred-and-thirty seconds of fear and pain. "
― Leslie Parrish , Cold Touch (Extrasensory Agents, #2)
2 " (T)here are worse things than falling on your face right out of college...Like instant, unearned success. Like getting your first novel accepted by the first publisher you send it to. Like getting your first rejection slip at the age of thirty-five. "
― Jincy Willett , The Writing Class
3 " There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them. "
― Chuck Palahniuk , Lullaby
4 " History was full of the bones of good men who'd followed bad orders in the hope that they could soften the blow. Oh, yes, there were worse things they could do, but most of them began right where they started following bad orders. "
― Terry Pratchett , Jingo (Discworld, #21; City Watch, #4)
5 " Addiction to reading... There are worse things in the world to be Addicted to. I admire your hobby choice it's mine as well. "
6 " But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already. "
― R.J. Anderson , Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet, #1)
7 " There is always something worse, limit thinking about worse things and concentrate on the best things. "
8 " There are worse things than being thirty-five, single, and female in New York. Like: Being twenty-five, singled, and female in New York. It's a rite of passage few women would want to repeat. It's about sleeping with the wrong men, wearing the wrong clothes, having the wrong roommate, saying the wrong thing, being ignored, getting fired, not being taken seriously, and generally being treated like shit. But it's necessary. "
― Candace Bushnell , Sex and the City
9 " There are worse things than death. "
― Erin Kellison , Until Dawn (Dragons of Bloodfire, #2.5)
10 " There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse. "
― Fleur Adcock
11 " There were worse things than death.There would be a leap and a moment suspended, then a long hopeless curve to the rocks and river below. They would fall like leaves between clouds of swifts and then be washed away by the thundering rapids. Bramble clung to that thought. If their bodies washed away then there could be no identification, no danger of reprisals on her family. She hung on tighter.The roan's hindquarters bunched under her and they were in the air. It was like she had imagined: the leap, and then the moment suspended in air that seemed to last forever.Below her the swifts boiled up through the river mist, swerving and swooping, while she and the roan seemed to stay frozen above them. Bramble felt, like a rush of air, the presence of the gods surround her. The shock made her lose her balance and begin to slide sideways.She felt herself falling. With an impossible flick of both legs, the roan shrugged her back onto his shoulders. Then the long curve downward and she braced herself to see the cliffs rushing past as they fell.Time to die.Instead she felt a thumping jolt that flung her from the roan's back and tossed her among the rocks at the cliff's edge on the other side.On the other side.Her sight cleared, although the light still seemed dim. Her hearing came back a little. On the other side of the abyss a jumble of men and hounds were milling, shouting, astonished and very angry. " You can't do that!" one yelled. " It's impossible!" " Well, he shagging did it!" another said. " Can't be impossible!" " Head for the bridge!" Beck shouted. " We can still get him! I want that horse! "
12 " 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. "
13 " There are worse things than eating the dead, my dear fellow. Far worse things. There is, for instance, making a huge profit out of their funeral, which is the normal custom in the civilized world. "
― Leonard Wibberley , A Feast of Freedom
14 " Feelings are feelings, no matter when they happen. Our bodies don't stop being ours just because worse things happen to other people. "
― Foz Meadows , An Accident of Stars (Manifold Worlds, #1)
15 " Dont worry" Emma said " There are worse things than having your heart broken." " Like What?" Zoe asked skeptically." Never having it broken. Never giving in to love "
16 " ...there are worse things than losing the girl. "
17 " there were worse things than feeling guilty, like feeling dead. "
18 " Humans do worse things with money rather than for money. "
― M.F. Moonzajer , LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
19 " There is no need to overreact. I’m certain there are worse things that could happen to a young lady than to be denied a voucher to Almack’s.” With a small smile, Amelia Bouchard folded up the letter that had delivered the bad news and tossed it into the fireplace. "
20 " There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind. "
― P.C. Cast , Hidden (House of Night, #10)