
“It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.”
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 74)
“It could be worse. I can’t think how right now, but I’m sure it could be worse.”
Source: Glory Season (1993), Chapter 4 (p. 74)
“Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.”
Source: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
“There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intelligence.”
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 165
Apologia, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XXIV - The Life of the World to Come
“It is so much worse than you think.”
Predictible Fakers (January 2009) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/predictible-fakers.html
Context: My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.
2021, November 2021, US President's Statement on Day 2 of the 2021 UN Climate Conference