Top 75 Quotes About Bad Fortune
#1. The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#2. Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#3. Look how men live, always precariously balanced between good and bad fortune.
Sophocles
#4. Life, Rose well knew, could throw some hard punches at you, but nothing hurt as much as losing a child, or seeing one of your children hurt and suffering. Becoming a parent changed you forever, as nothing else could. Not good or bad fortune. Not friendships. Not even a man or a woman.
Jennifer Donnelly
#6. Never look at other people's bad fortune,' my mother said. 'If you do, it will come back to find you instead of its rightful owner.
Alice Hoffman
#7. He died without cutting his nails, she said accusingly, as if I was responsible for that ill luck, and it was bad fortune indeed because now the grim things of the underworld would use Ivar's nails to build the ship that would bring chaos at the world's end.
Bernard Cornwell
#9. I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse
#10. You cannot tell whether a person is good or bad by his vicissitudes in life. Good and bad fortune are matters of fate.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#12. Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination.
Terry Pratchett
#13. We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship and community and love.
Joshua Prager
#14. Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good.
Aristotle.
#15. A true politeness does not result from any hasty and artificial polishing, it is true, but grows naturally in characters of the right grain and quality, through a long fronting of men and events, and rubbing on good and bad fortune.
Henry David Thoreau
#16. Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance.
Virgil
#17. But remember, child, we may all have our own story and destiny, and sometimes our seemingly bad fortune, but we're all part of a greater story too. One that transcends the soil, the wind, time ... even our own tears. Greater stories will have their way.
Mary E. Pearson
#18. Why had she imagined he was attractive? He was absolutely the biggest, most complete and utter jackass she'd ever had the bad fortune to meet.
Christina Dodd
#20. Bad Fortune!" cries The Vengeance, stamping her foot in the chair, "and here are the tumbrils! And Evremonde will be despatched in a wink, and she not here! See her knitting in my hand, and her empty chair ready for her. I cry with vexation and disappointment!
Charles Dickens
#21. When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.
Anne McCaffrey
#22. We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. Much of history turns out to be the consequence of small acts of fortune, accident or luck, good or bad.
Phil Mason
#24. 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
#25. I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.
Nenia Campbell
#27. Conventional wisdom may not be wise.
Good fortune and bad luck do not exist.
Freedom of choice is predetermined.
Don't believe anything you read!
L. Anthony
#28. I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.
Neil Gaiman
#29. Bean Throwing Day (Japan): Usually February 3 or q,. A day to toss away your bad luck and welcome good fortune. Try making a bean salad, then plant at least one of the beans in the earth near your home for providence all year.
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Patricia J. Telesco
#30. I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.
Ty Olsson
#31. 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
#32. ... fortune is not in time or place or things; but, good or bad, in the man's own self for him alone to find and prove.
Percy FitzPatrick
#33. Too bad I can't afford to patent it.
I can make a fortune.
But again,I have a fortune.
-Batman, Year One comic.
Frank Miller
#34. The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.
Sal Martinez
#35. I feel like a hostage to fortune. Not that I am complaining. I wanted to play the role. But in truth I didn't think the show would be such a success. OK, I thought it would fail. Not because it was bad. I was confident it was good, but plenty of good things just sort of wither on the vine.
Hugh Laurie
#36. Life is about making mistakes. If you don't take chances, blindfolded and frightened as you are, you're not really living, are you? Heartache makes you stronger. Misery is the stuff of good poetry. You're denying yourself much more than the bad things in life by listening to Zita's fortunes.
Kimberly Karalius
#37. You know as well as I do that fortune never sends the best-case scenario our way
You have way too much bad karma.
Eoin Colfer
#38. Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.
Amy Neftzger
#39. I've come so far, but in some ways, I haven't gone any distance. I'm still hiding from bad men. I'm still trying to figure how to make my own way, my own fortune.
Rae Carson
#40. The world has always been the same; and there is always as much good fortune as bad in it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#41. If fortune makes a wicked man prosperous and a good man poor, there is no need to wonder. For the wicked regard wealth as everything, the good as nothing. And the good fortune of the bad cannot take away their badness, while virtue alone will be enough for the good.
Sallust
#42. Uniquely, people who made suicide attempts were found to be especially prone to so-called "fortune telling," through which they predict and firmly believe that bad things will happen in the future.
Anonymous
#43. Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.
Laurent Lamothe
#44. Acceptance.
Good and bad,
Fortune and misfortune,
Pleasure and pain,
I want it all,
Because it's mine.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#45. There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
#46. A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
#47. 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
#48. A noble birth and fortune, though they make not a bad man good, yet they are a real advantage to a worthy one and place his virtues in a fairer light.
George Lillo
#49. Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.
Herta Muller
#50. Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
Francis Quarles
#51. In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.
Octavia E. Butler
#52. So much of people's fortune, good or bad, depends upon how they choose to fall in love.
Kate Saunders
#53. We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
Charles Kuralt
#55. She shrugged. You can be happy for someone else's good fortune, but that doesn't mean you forget your own bad luck.
Jodi Picoult
#56. You're not very good at being contemplative," Milo said. "You always sound like some bad caricature of a philosopher, like those fortune cookies with 'Confucius say' or the Nietzsche guy from Mystery Men that's always saying 'when you walk on the ground, the ground walks on you.
Amanda Hocking
#57. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
Eddie Huang
#58. The Neimoidian gave a long, gurgling sigh. You're right, Des. The decision is made. Grim fate and ill fortune have conspired against you. It's not like sabacc; you can't fold a bad hand. In life you just play the cards you're dealt.
Drew Karpyshyn
#61. O how feeble is man's power,
That if good fortune fall,
Cannot add another hour,
Nor a lost hour recall!
But come bad chance,
And we join to'it our strength,
And we teach it art and length,
Itself o'er us to'advance.
John Donne
#62. We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
C.S. Lewis
#63. I'm an extremely wealthy man. I own the sky. I have invested all my capital in the sun. I'm not bad-tempered, as you seem to imagine, nor do I bear grudges. But like all wealthy men, I'm a little frightened of losing my fortune.
Halldor Laxness
#64. It's hard to tell our bad luck from our good luck sometimes. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something when if we'd understood the situation better we might have celebrated our good fortune instead.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#65. You know he will take the credit for your good ideas, and you the blame for his bad ones? When fortune turns against you, you will feel her lash: you always, he never.
One day, when you are still adjusting your harness, you will look up and see him thundering downhill.
pg. 495
Hilary Mantel
#66. Do you believe that evil and tragedy are always planned? You don't think Fortune has anything to do with it?
Amy Neftzger
#67. And anyway, considering that her mother dies and her boyfriend's spending a small fortune to get high off someone else's bad breath, I'd say Sophie's next in line for therapy.
Rachel Vincent
#68. According to bourgeois standards, those who are completely unlucky and unsuccessful are automatically barred from competition, which is the life of society. Good fortune is identified with honor, and bad luck with shame.
Hannah Arendt
#69. Fortunate persons hardly ever amend their ways: they always imagine that they are in the right when fortune upholds their bad conduct.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#70. We have so much ill fortune as inconstancy, or so much bad purpose as folly, we are not so full of evil as we are of inanity; we are not so wretched as we are base
Michel De Montaigne
#71. North Korea is creating its own time zone. It's going to push the country's time back a half hour. So it's not bad enough that they don't have food and they're ruled by an insane dictator. Now they have to wait until 8:00 to watch 'Wheel of Fortune.'
Conan O'Brien
#72. Dont be kind person ,because kind people are losers and they think they doing it right.
I love riches because they destroy kind people like tank and they built their fortune. believing good or bad is just for weak people because strong people create them own role.
K Ibeyk
#73. At the heart of her bad nature, like many bad natures, was probably envy. And at the heart of envy was possibly hope - that the good fortune of others might one day be hers
Katherine Boo
#74. A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad.
Bodhidharma
#75. Bad weather friends were as undependable as fair weather friends in a crisis, the relationship in both cases being dictated by conditions of fortune instead of mutual tastes.
Dawn Powell
