“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,committed or endured or suspected; there are worse thingsthan not being able to sleep for thinking about them.It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking inand stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

“The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one's one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless.”

“It was just the human fatality of things, a cancer worse than blame, or hate or love.”

“I can only conclude that worse than hunger or thirst, worse than being unemployed, unhappy in love or defeated and in despair, far worse than any of all those things, is feeling that no one, absolutely no one, cares about us.”

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