Bad news Quote by Kay Redfield Jamison

There was something very comforting about him, and I was not sure if it was his easy manner or his complete immunity to my…

— Ilona Andrews

I wasn't sure if I admired him for feeling everything so hard and fiercely, or if I was contemptuous of him for having so…

— Maggie Stiefvater

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

The tears into his eyes were brought, And thanks and praises seemed to run So fast out of his heart, I thought They never…

— William Wordsworth

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do…

— Anonymous

I equal parts loved him and could not stand him. I couldn't wake him to share in my distress.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

— Anonymous

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

— Jane Austen

Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined…

— Annie Barrows

“It wasn’t that he was unhelpful, but he had the kind of vague, cheerful helpfulness that serious men soon learn to dread.”

— Terry Pratchett

Mostly, I could tell, I made him feel uncomfortable. He didn't understand me, and he was sort of holding it against me. I felt…

— Albert Camus

He was a vicious hurtful snob, I must confess. I literally despised him in the best kind of a way.

— Sara Bokhari