Quotes About A Bad Luck

#1. But he became known as a bad luck ship, mockingly called the Pariah.

Robin Hobb

#2. Lord, have mercy! Crazy cowboys who bought a bad luck ranch were definitely not supposed to be that sexy.

Carolyn Brown

#3. I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

Anais Nin

#4. Animation should be an art ... what you fellows have done with it, making it into a trade ... not an art, but a trade ... bad luck.

Winsor McCay

#5. The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Herodotus

#6. It's awful bad luck to bring a woman aboard the ship."
"It's awful worse luck not to.

Johnny Depp

#7. My sisters and I sit together on a pair of suitcases. If we've forgotten anything, it's already too late
our rooms have all been sealed and photographed. Anyway, Tatiana would say it's bad luck to return for something you've forgotten.

Sarah Miller

#8. The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#9. You need to give money when someone gives you a knife. So the bad luck won't cut you. I wouldn't like it for you to be cut by the bad luck, Jimmy.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Willa Cather

#11. Only bad golfers are lucky. They're the ones bouncing balls off trees, curbs, turtles and cars. Good golfers have bad luck. When you hit the ball straight, a funny bounce is bound to be unlucky.

Lee Trevino

#12. To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

St. Catherine Of Siena

#13. If Uncle Monty had known known what bad luck was soon to come, he wouldn't have wasted a moment thinking about Gustav. I wish - and I'm sure you wish as well - we could go back in time and warn him, but we can't, and that's that.

Lemony Snicket

#14. Bad luck was merely a random occurrence that didn't go in one's favor.

Kresley Cole

#15. In our unlucky times, it is a great comfort to think that luck favors only the bad guys or the dull!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

Joanne Harris

#17. When a black cat crosses your path, follow it. Understand the knowable unknown.

Lionel Suggs

#18. The power of your thoughts can influence how events turn out. I'm a positive person - when bad things happen, I can see the silver lining. As a result I think I am very lucky, even though I probably have as much bad luck as anyone else, and that translates into seeing opportunity.

Natalie Massenet

#19. Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously
died in a car accident.

Anthony Liccione

#20. A genuine coincidence always means bad luck for me; it's my only superstition.

Margery Allingham

#21. One magpie is bad luck,' said Molly. 'One for sorrow, two for mirth. Three for a wedding, four for a birth. Five for rich, six for poor. Seven for a witch, I can tell you no more.

Lili Wilkinson

#22. Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

Sheri S. Tepper

#23. Irish of three hundred years ago, who thought that to kill a cat brought seventeen years bad luck. A

Grace Elliot

#24. [The Land] is a film that just happens to be directed and written by a Puerto Rican guy with a black dad. It seemed like a very natural, human interaction between people who all just came from one common cesspool of bad luck.

Erykah Badu

#25. The Revolution of 1848 found all the Rougons on the lookout, frustrated by their bad luck, and ready to use any means necessary to advance their cause. They were a family of bandits lying in wait, ready to plunder and steal.

Emile Zola

#26. But that's the trouble with a drunk: if he gets excited he drinks too much, if he gets bored he drinks too much, if he has good luck he drinks too much, if he has bad luck he drinks too much, and so on.

Charles Bukowski

#27. If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Jay McInerney

#28. Playing good girls in the 30s was difficult, when the fad was to play bad girls. Actually I think playing bad girls is a bore; I have always had more luck with good girl roles because they require more from an actress.

Olivia De Havilland

#29. Life for me is just a result of experiments being performed by far more developed creatures.

Hasil Paudyal

#30. A margin of safety is achieved when securities are purchased at prices sufficiently below underlying value to allow for human error, bad luck, or extreme volatility in a complex, unpredictable and rapidly changing world.

Seth Klarman

#31. Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#32. I don't know if that's a year's bad luck, or if that's how it works. But stealing a Christmas tree - that can't be a good thing, karma-wise.

Adrian McKinty

#33. What i'm saying is that the sun always rises. Fortune's a mix of good and bad luck. Like they say/ good luck and bad luck are strands of the same rope.

Sakura Tsukuba

#34. Her face might be kindly if she would smile. But the frown isn't personal: it's the red dress she disapproves of, and what it stands for. She thinks I may be catching, like a disease or any form of bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

#35. How can you say that so casually? You're talking about the possible death of hundreds of people, yourself included."
He gave a negligent shrug. "Wrong place, wrong time. Life sucks.

Shannon K. Butcher

#36. A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth

Thomas Hood

#37. An aircraft operated by a woman was unheard of in the sky. Women were bad luck, started fires, caused fights.

Meg Merriet

#38. A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

E.W. Howe

#39. Mundies die awfully easily, don't they?"
"Isabelle, you know it's bad luck to talk about death in a sickroom.

Cassandra Clare

#40. Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.

Emma Cline

#41. It would be unthinkably bad luck to be betrayed by a rumbling stomach.

John Flanagan

#42. People would far rather believe a lurid lie than a sorry string of accidents. Would far rather believe the world is full of evil than full of bad luck, selfishness and stupidity.

Joe Abercrombie

#43. It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

Laura Lippman

#44. I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her ... '
' ... Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.'
' ... Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.

John Connolly

#45. There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck ... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago ... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.

Billy Joel

#46. I needed to understand this random bad bit of luck as part of a bigger design. Otherwise I was suffering meaninglessly. This made the suffering a lot worse.

Heidi Julavits

#47. You create your own luck by the way you play. There is no such luck as bad luck. Fate has nothing to do with success or failure, because that is a negative philosophy that indicts one's confidence, and I'll have no part of it.

Greg Norman

#48. After the calm comes the storm; it starts out slowly, reaches its peak, then it's over and other periods of calm, some longer, some shorter, come along. It's just been our bad luck to be born in a century full of storms, that's all. They'll die down.

Irene Nemirovsky

#49. When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.

Sarah Kendzior

#50. Except science now tells us that luck is there whether you acknowledge it or not. And I'm afraid in your case I see the signs of a history of bad luck. Not even a latency so much as a full-blown case going completely ignored for lack of context.

Jonathan Lethem

#51. That's bad luck: three on a midget.

Groucho Marx

#52. One piece of bad luck was rapid technical change, which was a weapon that oddball upstarts could use against the enormous gray corporations.

Michael Lewis

#53. Winning a lottery may prove to be bad luck.

James Cook

#54. Highly resilient people are flexible, adapt to new circumstances quickly, and thrive in constant change. Most important, they expect to bounce back and feel confident that they will. They have a knack for creating good luck out of circumstances that many others see as bad luck.

Al Siebert

#55. A black cat crossing the road is considered bad luck in some cultures. What about the cat's culture?

Anno Nomius

#56. Most folk consider that a woman aboard a ship brings nothing but bad luck because it provokes the jealousy of Ran, the goddess of the sea who will abide no rivals,

Bernard Cornwell

#57. My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Sam Shepard

#58. Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

Herta Muller

#59. Sometimes bad luck hits you like in an ancient Greek tragedy, and it's not your own making. When you have a plane crash, it's not your fault.

Werner Herzog

#60. When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

Chad Kroeger

#61. Las Vegas is a society of armed masturbators/gambling is the kicker here/sex is extra/weird trip for high rollers ... house-whores for winners, hand jobs for the bad luck crowd.

Hunter S. Thompson

#62. A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

Bertrand Russell

#63. The important thing is: if you fail once, or if your luck is bad this time, the dream is still there. A dream is only over if you give it up-or if it comes true.

Neil Peart

#64. SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

Henry Spencer

#65. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#66. Maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in.

Donna Tartt

#67. I know this - a man got to do what he got to do, I can't tell you. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in the worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself, Help im, maybe, but not tell him what to do.

John Steinbeck

#68. There was no such thing as luck. Luck was a word idiots used to explain the consequences of their own rashness, and selfishness, and stupidity. More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

Joe Abercrombie

#69. I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

Steven Wright

#70. That's bad luck: three on a midget. From At The Circus

Groucho Marx

#71. And then, as if written by the hand of a bad novelist, an incredible thing happened.

Jonathan Stroud

#72. Good luck gets a bad rap due to superstitions.

Ashwin Sanghi

#73. Success is not a miracle. Nor is it a matter of luck. Everything happens for a reason, good or bad, positive or negative.

Brian Tracy

#74. Luck was a joke. Even good luck was just bad luck with its hair combed.

Stephen King

#75. There's a moon now, almost full. Good luck for owls; bad luck for rabbits, who often choose to cavort riskily but sexily in the moonlight, their brains buzzing with pheromones.

Margaret Atwood

#76. I don't think they's luck or bad luck. On'y one thing in this worl' I'm sure of, an' that's I'm sure nobody got a right to mess with a fella's life. He got to do it all hisself. Help him, maybe, but not tell him what to do.

John Steinbeck

#77. Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

Joseph Heller

#78. New Rule: If you married a manic-depressive, three of your children died, and while you were president civil war broke out and someone shot you in the head, your coin really shouldn't say, In God We Trust.

Bill Maher

#79. The Ancient Egyptians considered it good luck to meet a swarm of Bees on the road. What they considered bad luck I couldn't say.

Will Cuppy

#80. Luck or tragedy, some people get runs. Then of course there are those who divide it even, good and bad, but we never hear of them. Such a life doesn't demand attention. Only the people who get the good or bad runs.

John Steinbeck

#81. The Cross is a gibbet - rather an odd thing to make use of as a talisman against bad luck, if that is how we regard it. Or is it, instead, a cynical reminder that Virtue usually gets pilloried whenever it makes one of its occasional appearances in this world?

Denis Johnston

#82. My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Ed Furgol

#83. Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

Virginia Graham

#84. If you drill down on any success story, you always discover that luck was a huge part of it. You can't control luck, but you can move from a game with bad odds to one with better odds. You can make it easier for luck to find you. The most useful thing you can do is stay in the game.

Scott Adams

#85. In life we all go through trials and tribulations. So now tell me, will you pass or will you make a mess?

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#86. Maybe, I thought- reaching in the bag, taking out a stack of money and looking it over- maybe good luck was like bad luck in that it took a while to sink in. You didn't feel anything at first.

Donna Tartt

#87. Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

William Feather

#88. You make the Titanic look like a tiny little misadventure.

Gina Ranalli

#89. [Robert] Capa: He was a good friend and a great and very brave photographer. It is bad luck for everybody that the percentages caught up with him. It is especially bad for Capa. (On Capa's death in Vietnam, May, 27, 1954)

Ernest Hemingway,

#90. As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Jacques Roumain

#91. The superstitious one will never walk upon a grave. It's said that its sinful in the day and terrible bad luck in the dark.

C.L. Bevill

#92. Maybe you don't just have "bad luck" - maybe you are caught-up in a stampede of ugliness.

Bryant McGill

#93. In Bangladesh, there's a saying that if you get killed by a snake, its destiny... But if you get killed by a tiger, its just bad luck.

Guy Delisle

#94. Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity.

John Corey Whaley

#95. The origin of modern humanity was a stroke of luck - good for our species for a while, bad for most of the rest of life forever. All

Edward O. Wilson

#96. Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Faith Baldwin

#97. We all have luck, good and bad. It's how you meet it that matters

Joe Abercrombie

#98. I've had a little bad, bad media luck the new year. Well, apparently I'm dating Bill Clinton, which makes me nervous. I didn't know, though.

Julie Bowen

#99. Writing is a kind of revenge against circumstance too: bad luck, loss, pain. If you make something out of it, then you've no longer been bested by these events.

Louise Gluck

#100. A challenge to your bad luck is your confidence. Your confidence, you and your patience is your good luck.

Dhiraj Das