#wors

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#aversion #jumble #ostensible #secret #worship

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#did #hope #human #human beings #interested

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#god #him #may #our #planet

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#conscience #only #than #the only thing #thing

The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#being #being misunderstood #misunderstood #poet #through

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#certain #far #find #furnishing #i

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#become #better #certainly #good #infallibly

When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. ↗

— Barry Commoner

#situation #than #think #understand #worse

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories