“The world's perverse, but it could be worse.”

— Mona Van Duyn

Last update Oct. 3, 2019. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "The world's perverse, but it could be worse." by Mona Van Duyn?

Mona Van Duyn 1

American poet 1921–2004

Related quotes

“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (…) But it could be worse, huh?"
"That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”

William Gibson Burning Chrome

Source: Burning Chrome (anthology, 1986)

“These widows, sir, are the most perverse creatures in the world.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

No. 335 (25 March 1712).
The Spectator (1711–1714)

“It is the spirit of Salem—the corrupting influence of Puritanism which in itself is perversion of the Stoic ideal—infecting what remains of a nation which could have set an example to the world.”

Michael Moorcock book The Land Leviathan

Book 1, Chapter 8 “A Decision in Cold Blood” (p. 233)
The Land Leviathan (1974)

“Marijuana is […] self-punishing. It makes you acutely sensitive and in this world, what worse punishment could there be?”

P. J. O'Rourke (1947) American journalist

Rolling Stone (November 1989), as cited in The Yale Book of Quotations https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0300107986, ed. Fred Shapiro, Yale University Press (2006), p. 567

“If only everyone could know and live with their inner craziness. Would the world be a worse place for it? No, people would be fairer and happier.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Veronika Decides to Die

“Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.”

Carl Sagan book The Demon-Haunted World

"With Science on Our Side" https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/1994/01/09/with-science-on-our-side/9e5d2141-9d53-4b4b-aa0f-7a6a0faff845/, Washington Post (January 9, 1994)
Variant: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.
Source: The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark