“There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.”

“The one thing worse than an enemy is a friend turned false.”

Philip Reeve book Here Lies Arthur

“The future is usually imagined as either better or worse than the present. If the imagined future is better, it gives you hope or pleasurable anticipation. If it is worse, it creates anxiety. Both are illusory.”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

“There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.”

L. Ron Hubbard (1911–1986) American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, and the founder of the Church of Scientology

“It is not often that the real world conjures worse than what we can imagine.”

Alison Goodman (1966) Australian science-fiction writer

“I can’t imagine anything worse than being required to have fun.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Boy, there's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

“There is nothing worse than a cultural barbarian with pretensions.”

Hubert Selby Jr. Requiem for a Dream

“Nothing's worse than a woman know-it-all.”

Tom DeLay (1947) American Republican politician

“For a man wins nothing better than a good wife, and, again, nothing worse than a bad one.”

Hesiod book Works and Days