55 Quotes About Bad-news

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

You had better not open that door.

It is much, much worse to receive bad news through the written word than by somebody simply telling you, and I’m sure you understand why. When somebody simply tells you bad news, you hear it once, and that’s the end of it. But when bad news is written down, whether in a letter or a newspaper or on your arm in felt tip pen, each time you read it, you feel as if you are receiving the bad news again and again.

Although my father was raised in the church, he wouldn't have prayed to God to spare him. He wouldn't have looked for alternative treatments or a guru or some faulty gene to blame. In my family, we have a long-standing habit of blocking out bad news, of trying to forget about it almost the moment it arrives.

Don't let the bearers of bad news become the pallbearers of your happiness.

That set my ears buzzing. Why did Annabeth sound like she'd been crying?""You okay, cuz?"She paused for a long time. "I will be. We... we got some bad news when we got out here.

When you break the news of death, you become Death, and there’s always a sickle somewhere.

Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.

I need a kid like I need a bad heart. A pretty kid is a ticket to trouble... and I'm too old to ask for that. Shit, I haven't even booked Tommy the Face in two years. I'm turning into a jack-off idiot.