Life-after-god Quote by Douglas Coupland

“We don't hope for the best anymore; we just hope to avoid the worst.”

— Harmon Okinyo

“When you always expect the worst you can never experience the best.”

— Jayce O'Neal

“You could stop expecting the most awful thing to happen, because it already had.”

— Jodi Picoult

“You should just expect the worst. The world just isn’t what it used to be.”

— Annie Walls

“Really, once the worst happens, it’s always happening. It’s never not happening.”

— Bret Anthony Johnston

“But oughtn't we to be prepared for the best too? It's just as likely to happen as the worst.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“Sometimes the most surprising things happen from our mistakes.”

— Coleen Patrick

“Don't expect the worst because, by expecting the worst, you're inviting it to come true.”

— Pepper Winters

“Some of the best things that have ever happened to us wouldn’t have happened to us, if it weren’t for some of the worst…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I should have known by then that it's never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass; it's the ones you don't…

— Karen Thompson Walker

“I guess when you expect the worst it’s always a pleasant surprise if everything ends up going smoothly.”

— Karina Halle

“Expect the unexpected. But don't be surprised when the unexpected is not what you expect.”

— Robert Mulkey