
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
Attributed
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
Attributed
“I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.”
Variant: I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
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Variant: Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Source: Haunted (2005), Chapter 11, Ritual
“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.”
Lilith, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: I had patience with them for many ages: they tried me very sorely. They did terrible things: they embraced death, and said that eternal life was a fable. I stood amazed at the malice and destructiveness of the things I had made...
July 2017 http://www.npr.org/2017/07/08/536125111/life-as-a-drone-warrior, In a discussion with NPR radio host Scott Simon about the morality of targeting terrorists with drones.
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
Source: After You'd Gone