{"quotes":[{"text":"Nothing seems to tempt fate more than mentioning the possibility of something bad happening.","author":"Donald G. Firesmith","tags":["bad-luck","bad-news","demonic","demons","evil","hell-on-earth","jinxing","possibility","something-bad","tempting-fate","war"],"id":11726,"author_id":"Donald+G.+Firesmith"},{"text":"She was always left feeling like a murderer. Because the messenger becomes the murderer. Until the fatal words are spoken, the loved one concerned is still alive, waking, sleeping, going about his business, making telephone calls, writing letters, going for walks, breathing, seeing. It was the telling that killed.","author":"Rosamunde Pilcher","tags":["bad-news","death","reality"],"id":18922,"author_id":"Rosamunde+Pilcher"},{"text":"Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.","author":"Patricia Gaffney","tags":["bad-news","cancer","friendship","inspirational","life"],"id":23667,"author_id":"Patricia+Gaffney"},{"text":"Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["bad-news","control-your-thoughts","debasish","debasish-mridha","good-news","mridha","philosophy"],"id":35371,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"Success and failure can both make you lose appetite and concentration, don't let it bother or over-excite you, just think them away as a mere thing that had just happened, and get along with your life.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["appetite","bad-news","believe-in-yourself","bore","boring","excitement","failure","food","getting-along","go-on","let-go","let-it-go","never-give-up","optimism","sad","sadness","stigma","stigmatization","stop-and-think","trauma"],"id":40245,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"The bad news is that yesterday sucked. The good news is that yesterday is gone. Today's a new day. Own it! Shape it! Live it!","author":"Steve Maraboli","tags":["bad-news","good-news","inspiration","today","yesterday"],"id":72910,"author_id":"Steve+Maraboli"},{"text":"This is what I say: I've got good news and bad news.The good news is, you don't have to worry, you can't change the past.The bad news is, you don't have to worry, no matter how hard you try, you can't change the past.The universe just doesn't put up with that. We aren't important enough. No one is. Even in our own lives. We're not strong enough, willful enough, skilled enough in chronodiegetic manipulation to be able to just accidentally change the entire course of anything, even ourselves.","author":"Charles Yu","tags":["bad-news","change","chronodiegetic-manipulation","good-news","life","the-universe","time-travel"],"id":87534,"author_id":"Charles+Yu"},{"text":"I would forget it fain,But oh, it presses to my memory,Like damnèd guilty deeds to sinners' minds.","author":"William Shakespeare","tags":["bad-news","guilt"],"id":114513,"author_id":"William+Shakespeare"},{"text":"No one loves the messenger who brings bad news.","author":"Sophocles","tags":["bad-news","blame","scapegoats"],"id":116326,"author_id":"Sophocles"},{"text":"The end occurred mostly in her whispers and his silence - because he couldn't whisper and they didn't want to wake Colin's parents. They succeeded in staying quiet, in part because it felt like the air had been shocked out of him. Paradoxically, he felt as if his getting dumped was the only thing happening on the entire dark and silent planet, and also as if it weren't happening at all. He felt himself drifting away from the one-sided whispered conversation, wondering if maybe everything big and heartbreaking and incomprehensible is a paradox.","author":"John Green","tags":["bad-news","heartbreak","reality"],"id":143104,"author_id":"John+Green"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":27,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}