“It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. "There is nothing worse than war." Defeat is worse." I do not believe it," Passini said still respectfully. "What is defeat? You go home.”
“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.”
“How quickly revolutions grow old; and, worse still, respectable.”
“There is nothing worse than war in the summetime.”
“Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?""That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.”
“Worse day ever!" I whined to Ellie."Oh, worse than the time you got pulled over and the cop said 'papers' and you said 'scissors, I win' and he didn't laugh?”