55 Quotes About Bad-news

Mr. A calls me into his office and says he's got bad news and bad news, and which do I want first. I say the bad news.

When a tree falls it resounds with a thundering crash; and yet a whole forest grows in silence.

A chill swept through the air, the sort of graveyard kiss promising bad news to follow.

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.

I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.

The bad news is nothing lasts forever,The good news is nothing lasts forever.

The man said that a portion of track just up into the mountain pass had been damaged by a rockslide early that morning, and they had shut down the whole system for maybe as long as the rest of the summer. The man shook his head, incredulous, disgusted, but also delighted in the way that people are often delighted by bad news, or the opportunity to discuss bad news that does not immediately affect them.

When the phone rings at 2.15am in the morning it's unlikely to be heralding something pleasant. What chance is there of its being good news? None. Only someone bad would ring at such an hour. Or someone with bad news.

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.