“You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

“I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.”

Quentin Crisp book The Naked Civil Servant

“There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us. They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones; it all depends on how you use them.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.”

Laura Penny (1975) Canadian journalist

“I'll clue you in on a secret: death is not the worst thing that could happen to you. I know we think that; we are the first society ever to think that. It's not worse than dishonor; it's not worse than losing your freedom; its not worse than losing a sense of personal responsibility.”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

“There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

“there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this
and most often when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than too late”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.”

John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer

“When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature