# Quote — John Brunner, Quicksand

> —Why can I never visualize things turning out better as clearly as I can visualize the catastrophes I scraped past by a hair? “Everything for the best in the best of all possible worlds!” Hah!

- Author: [John Brunner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner.md)
- Book: [Quicksand](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand.md)
- Page: 40
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Brunner#Quicksand_(1967)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/why-can-i-never

## More from this book

> —Blessed are they who expect the worst, for they shall get it!

p. 113 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/blessed-are-they.md)

> —If I ever get good at hospital politics, I think I shall start to hate myself.

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/if-i-ever.md)

> A cripple can still be a person, but in what sense is a lunatic human? Humanity’s in the mind, in the tangle of thoughts spun by the brain, and once that’s gone what remains is human only in outward shape.

p. 24 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-brunner/quicksand/a-cripple-can.md)