Bad Things Quotes - Page 5

• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

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• You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing

  Dale Carnegie

  One Day, Looks, Good Things

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• ...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

  Kaui Hart Hemmings

  Growing Up, Kids, Islands

  Kaui Hart Hemmings (2005). “House of Thieves”, Penguin Press HC

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• She looked up. "What I can't figure out is why the good things always end." "Everything ends." "Not some things. Not the bad things. They never go away." "Yes, they do. If you let them, they go away. Not as fast as we'd like sometimes, but they end too. What doesn't end is the way we feel about each other. Even when you're all grown up and somewhere else, you can remember what a good time we had together. Even when you're in the middle of bad things and they never seem to be changing, you can remember me. And I'll remember you.

  Torey L. Hayden

  Remember You, Remembers You, Somewhere Else

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• You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

  Haruki Murakami

  Different, Entering, Phases

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• The prospect of a world that contains neither humans nor Z's is not so terrifying. Nature will take its world back. Animals will frolic and fight. There will be no lord of the manor, which is not such a bad thing, because it seems to me that people have done a pretty poor job of guiding the biosphere for the last few thousand years.

  John Green

  Jobs, Fighting, Animal

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• If goodness can't come from bad things, it makes bad things unbearable.

  David Levithan

  Unbearable, Goodness, Ifs

  David Levithan (2009). “Love Is the Higher Law”, p.104, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• No matter how bad things get, you can always see the beauty in them. The worse things get, the more you have to make yourself see the magic in order to survive.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Order, Magic, Matter

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• In life, we don't know why things happen. I believe God is not responsible for the bad things that happen to you. Sometimes I think He's responsible for the good things, but sometimes it's something you shape up for yourself.

  Buck Brannaman

  Believe, Thinking, Why Things Happen

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• ...maybe hope isn't such a bad thing. Maybe it's what keeps us together.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Together

  Lauren DeStefano (2012). “Fever”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• Tam Lin says rabbits give up when they're caught by coyotes [...]. He says they consent to die because their animals and can't understand hope. But humans are different. They fight against death no matter how bad things seem, and sometimes, even when everything's against them, they win.

  Nancy Farmer

  Giving Up, Fighting, Animal

  Nancy Farmer (2013). “The House of the Scorpion”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

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• I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Thank God, Waste

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

  Carrie Fisher

  Order, Difficult Situations, Survivor

  Carrie Fisher (2005). “The Best Awful: A Novel”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• Everything happens for a reason, Sadie, even bad things.

  Rick Riordan

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Sadie, Reason

  Rick Riordan (2011). “The Throne of Fire (The Kane Chronicles Book 2): The Throne of Fire”, p.150, Penguin UK

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• I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result.

  Holly Black

  Regret, Want, Sometimes

  Holly Black (2012). “Black Heart: The Curse Workers”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and a decent place to live. I want to read books and listen to music and have time to make some female friendships that are going to last. When I wake up in the morning, I want to know that I have a decent shot at being happy. And here’s what’s really sad. Until I met you, I was almost there.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Morning, Jobs, Pain

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• No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Matter, Walks, Stills

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Lullaby”, p.17, Random House

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• I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

  Veronica Roth

  Life, Who I Am, Done

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• Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

  Megan McCafferty

  Happens

  Megan McCafferty (2009). “Perfect Fifths: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.78, Broadway Books

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• Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.

  James A. Owen

  Stories, Pages, Happens

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• One piece of advice I have is: Want something else more than success. Success is a lovely thing, but your desire to say something, your worth, and your identity shouldn’t rely on it, because it’s not guaranteed and it’s not permanent and it’s not sufficient. So work hard, fall in love with the writing — the characters, the story, the words, the themes — and make sure that you are who you are regardless of your life circumstances. That way, when the good things come, they don’t warp you, and when the bad things hit you, you don’t fall apart.

  Veronica Roth

  Falling In Love, Writing, Character

  Amazon.com Q&A with Author, www.amazon.com.

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• FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn’t always prevail over evil.

  Susane Colasanti

  Mean, People, Evil

  Susane Colasanti (2012). “Keep Holding On”, p.101, Penguin

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• Most of the time-- 99 percent of the time-- you just don't know how and why the threads are looped together, and that's okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.

  Lauren Oliver

  Together, Good Things, Thread

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• We'd sit with a big bowl of popcorn, wrapped together in a queen-size blanket, and would escape to a place where magic was ours for the taking, where men rescued the people they loved instead of abandoning them. A place where, no matter how bad things looked at that moment, there would always be a happy ending.

  Jodi Picoult

  Queens, Men, People

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• I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Believe, Worry, Hard

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