Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

I felt like things could never get any worse.

I have been to hell and back. I have seen the edge. I have seen the dark side of life.

I tell you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

Oh my God. My God. It’s all over.

I started with nothing. Less than nothing.

For me and Washington, it was like I was in a dark tunnel, and the light was really far away.

The purpose of this lectchoor is to let you know where we are. We are in the deep cack. It couldn't be worse if it was raining arseholes. Any questions?

Into the eternal darkness, into fire and into ice.

Going to work just looked crazy. Eating another meal, ever, made about as much sense as planting tulip bulbs in the shadow of a falling atom bomb.

I guess that's why they call it Hell.

The living will envy the dead.

Best hope for what, Catman? Death? Bankruptcy? You know, my life was going along…well, rather crappily, to be honest, but at least no one was trying to kill me and no one was dying around me. Since I met you, my life has taken the high road to Shitsville, with no off-ramp in sight. (Susan)

I wash my hands, wonder how an awful day could turn even worse. It seems like at some point you'd just run out of awful.

Sadness came into the world with Satan - that world our Saviour never prayed for, the world you say I do not know. Oh, it is not so difficult to recognize: it is the world that prefers cold to warmth! What can God find to say to those who, of their own free will, of their own weight incline towards sadness and turn instinctively towards the night?

There's a light at the end of the tunnel. And it's a train.

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night

Seriously, if I switched on the TV and they were showing live footage of an army of fire-breathing pterodactyls machine-gunning people to death on the streets of London right outside my door, I'd be horrified, but not entirely surprised, nor any more scared than I already am. I'd probably just shrug and wait for them to smash the door down. We're so screwed, I don't even know what to worry about first.

Someone might as well roll up the whole sky, pack it away for good.

How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?