Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.
Don't they always go from bad to worse? There's no turning back--your old self rejects you, and shuts you out. ~Lilly Bart
No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step.
No man becomes bad all at once.
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.
Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.
Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
One can reach the gates of hell just as easily by short steps as by large.
From good to bad, and from bad to worse, From worse unto that is worst of all, And then return to his former fall.
Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.
History teaches us that the capacity for things to get worse is limitless.
