--- title: "4 Worse Place Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 4 Worse Place quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Worse Place sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png" --- > [The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or-a-worse-place-it-just-gets/) [Harold Bloom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-bloom/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png) > [“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-e-hodges/writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their-flesh-and-bones-are-stuck-in/) [Jason E. Hodges](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jason-e-hodges/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/jason-e-hodges-23333_psychology_writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their_1825615.jpg) > [“Because the other way wasn’t working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-semple/because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the-waking-up-just-to-get-the/) [Maria Semple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maria-semple/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/maria-semple-2954_art-of-life_because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the_2197159.png) > [If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am-in-it/) [Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/abraham-lincoln-88_civil-war_if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am_2917677.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/#itemlist", "name": "Worse Place Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Harold Bloom" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-bloom/the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or-a-worse-place-it-just-gets/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.” — Harold Bloom", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jason E. Hodges" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jason-e-hodges/writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their-flesh-and-bones-are-stuck-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/jason-e-hodges-23333_psychology_writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their_1825615.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/jason-e-hodges-23333_psychology_writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their_1825615.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f12/jason-e-hodges-23333_psychology_writers-live-within-their-mind-for-their_1825615.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Writers live within their mind for their flesh and bones are stuck in a far worse place.” — Jason E. Hodges", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Because the other way wasn’t working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed. The grinding it out was a disgrace, an affront to the honor and long shot of being alive at all. The ghost-walking, the short-tempered distraction, the hurried fog. (All of this I’m just assuming, because I have no idea how I come across, my consciousness is that underground, like a toad in winter.) The leaving the world a worse place just by being in it. The blindness to the destruction in my wake. The Mr. Magoo. If I’m forced to be honest, here’s an account of how I left the world last week: worse, worse, better, worse, same, worse, same. Not an inventory to make one swell with pride. I don’t necessarily need to make the world a better place, mind you. Today, I will live by the Hippocratic oath: first do no harm. How hard can it be? Dropping off Timby, having my poetry lesson (my favorite part of life!), taking a yoga class, eating lunch with Sydney Madsen, whom I can’t stand but at least I can check her off the list (more on that later), picking up Timby, and giving back to Joe, the underwriter of all this mad abundance. You’re trying to figure out, why the agita surrounding one normal day of white-people problems? Because there’s me and there’s the beast in me.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Maria Semple" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maria-semple/because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the-waking-up-just-to-get-the/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/maria-semple-2954_art-of-life_because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the_2197159.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/maria-semple-2954_art-of-life_because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the_2197159.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4f0/maria-semple-2954_art-of-life_because-the-other-way-wasn-t-working-the_2197159.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Because the other way wasn’t working. The waking up just to get the day over with until it was time for bed…” — Maria Semple", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Abraham Lincoln" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abraham-lincoln/if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am-in-it/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/abraham-lincoln-88_civil-war_if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am_2917677.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/abraham-lincoln-88_civil-war_if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am_2917677.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dc2/abraham-lincoln-88_civil-war_if-there-is-a-worse-place-than-hell-i-am_2917677.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it.” — Abraham Lincoln", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/", "name": "Worse Place Quotes", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a59/harold-bloom-3350_better_the-world-does-not-get-to-be-a-better-or_378051.png" }, "description": "Browse 4 Worse Place quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Worse Place sayings and thoughts.", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/#breadcrumb" } }, { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Topics", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Worse Place Quotes", "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/worse-place/" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "publisher": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } }, { "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization", "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/", "logo": { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png", "width": 512, "height": 512 } } ] } ```