Quotes About Bad Luck

#1. Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Mason Cooley

#2. My bad luck got tangled up with my bad decisions, and I'm paying for it.

Patrick Rothfuss

#3. You have better luck than you think you do," Cian said firmly.
Turning back toward him, she said, "Yeah? Prove it?"
You found me."
Yeah, and awakening your inner vampire, scaring the shit out of your
girlfriend, and screwing up your life."
Then that's my bad luck," he corrected her.

Rhiannon Frater

#4. Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

Rocko

#5. Never have your wallet with you onstage. It's bad luck. You shouldn't play the piano with money in your pocket. Play like you need the money.
Tom Waits (to me, about 1986 or so)

Tom Waits

#6. 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

#7. There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.

Jeffrey Fry

#8. 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

#9. I don't believe in superstition, I think it's bad luck.

Dan Henderson

#10. Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Don Shula

#11. [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

#12. No matter how we grieve over our bad luck, nothing will happen. We have to smile and believe that tomorrow will be better than today.

Tachibana Higuchi

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

Grace Elliot

#14. 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

#15. Good music always defeats bad luck.

Jack Vance

#16. Good luck is abnormal
bad luck is common

Yarro Rai

#17. People are just people, doing people things. Sometimes they're stupid, and sometimes they're desperate, and a lot of the time it's just bad luck. Don't get your knickers in a twist over people.

Claire North

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

Margery Allingham

#19. The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Channing Pollock

#20. 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.
So

Patricia J. Telesco

#21. May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours

Hasil Paudyal

#22. Why did bad luck always have to come in bunches?

K.M. Morgan

#23. For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Albert Camus

#24. Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

Catherynne M Valente

#25. Oh, I don't buy lottery tickets ... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also be equally capable of extremely bad luck, like getting struck by lightning, or falling out of window or something. I'd rather just not know.

Chrissi Sepe

#26. There was no bad luck in the world but whitepeople. 'They don't know when to stop,' she said, and returned to her bed, pulled up the quilt and left them to hold that thought forever.

Toni Morrison

#27. 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

#28. I felt really sorry for Oliver Kahn. Up to that point he had made lots of saves for the German team. Of course he could have caught the ball but it just happened. It was bad luck. In that situation, you need to be very strong psychologically to carry on.

Angela Merkel

#29. Life is not easy. We all have problems-even tragedies-to deal with, and luck has nothing to do with it. Bad luck is only the superstitious excuse for those who don't have the wit to deal with the problems of life.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#30. Prostitution is the supreme triumph of capitalism. When the sex war is won prostitutes should be shot as collaborators for their terrible betrayal of all women, for the moral tarring and feathering they give indigenous women who have had the bad luck to live in what they make their humping ground.

Julie Burchill

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

Joanne Harris

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

Kresley Cole

#33. It was my bad luck (considering Lee's moral code was a bit sketchy) that I fell into Liam Nightingale's Ethical Rule Book at Rule Number Two (with Rule Number One being "Thou shalt not nail your brother's girlfriend"), I was "Thou shalt not nail your little sister's best friend.

Kristen Ashley

#34. You can't keep all bad luck from finding you, but you can fortify yourself to the point where the smaller stuff bounces off.

Scott Adams

#35. 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

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

St. Catherine Of Siena

#37. 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

#38. The groom should not see you in the dress just before the wedding, that's bad luck. You know what's worst luck? Is getting married, itself. I've read studies. It's like 2 out of 3 of those end in divorce, sometimes more. 3 out of 2, some.

Hank Moody

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

Willa Cather

#40. Those who have experienced good and bad luck many times have every reason to be skeptical of successes

Thucydides

#41. I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

Patrick Murray

#42. It seems to me after a fellow has been mutinied against three or four times, there is something to it besides bad luck.

Naomi Novik

#43. 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

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

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

#45. 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

#46. Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Tig Notaro

#47. good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

Robert A. Heinlein

#48. 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

#49. Know your unlucky days, for the exist. Nothing will work out right and, even though you change your game, your bad luck will remain.

Baltasar Gracian

#50. Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

Miguel Torres

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

Johnny Depp

#52. That was one of the most rewarding things about spending nights in the open. Birds were bound to wake you up, and whether they carried good or bad luck, at least they woke you up with music.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#53. Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

M.F. Moonzajer

#54. Are seeds of hope, yes. Of course." ... "The nocturni are the bearers of the hope seeds." ... "That's why it's such bad luck to cross them ... They carry the seeds Above, and plant them in souls where they're needed.

Lauren Oliver

#55. It seems to have been my bad luck always to receive more than I could return, from life and friends.

Hermann Hesse

#56. The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort.

Robert Kiyosaki

#57. Sometimes it seems that bad luck always flows like the sea to me. Hardly has one wave of bad luck subsided, when another washed into my life.

Chun Yu Wang

#58. 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

#59. Even at its worst, there are tiny holes in the midnight canopy of my bad luck.

Mike Carey

#60. Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

Ashleigh Brilliant

#61. The only thing you have to worry about is bad luck. I never had bad luck.

Harry S. Truman

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

Groucho Marx

#63. 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

#64. Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.

Margaret Atwood

#65. I have very little faith that I'll ever find someone. I've had some bad luck and I've made some bad choices - not in men, but in how I've chosen to deal with relationships.

Selma Blair

#66. 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

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. 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

#70. Each person tries to hold himself hss and lay the blame upon somebody or something else, or even on bad luck.

Swami Vivekananda

#71. 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

#72. I left parts of myself everywhere,
The way absent-minded people leave
Gloves and umbrellas
Whose colors are sad from dispensing so much bad luck

Charles Simic

#73. 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

#74. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

Heinrich Boll

#75. My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.

Gwenda Bond

#76. It is bad luck for world history that of all people the Russians adopted Communism, because they are totally unfit for it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#77. If illness didn't kill you, you died of bad luck.

Denis Johnson

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

Thomas Hood

#79. Does bad luck come in 3's...or is it multiples of 3?

Tara Ford

#80. Despite my height, ignorance, heartbreaks, insecurity, criticism, competition, my skin color, that voice in my head that says 'No way', bad luck, a tight budget, insults, fear, flaws, failure and opposition. I believe in myself.

Manasa Rao

#81. It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck

Jacob Zuma

#82. Personal responsibility for everything is the hallmark of an enlightened being. If you blame others, bad luck or the Universe/God for your difficulties, you clearly do not understand the Principle of Oneness. You are in charge and responsible for everything. Embrace your power and make no excuses.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#83. You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success, then that's your bad luck.

Michael Frayn

#84. Nowadays people talk about the things he did as though they made sense. As though even his most disastrous mistakes were only the result of bad luck or hubris.

Jeanette Winterson

#85. There was something particularly American about it--blaming yourself for bad luck--that resistance to seeing your life as affected by social forces, a tendency to attribute larger problems to individual behavior. The ugly reverse of the American Dream.

Philipp Meyer

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

Meg Merriet

#87. The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Jacob Zuma

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

E.W. Howe

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

Cassandra Clare

#90. People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world.

Chris Prentiss

#91. What makes you believe, that you are the only person with so much problems and bad luck? If you wear everyone's shoes, you will certainly understand that the whole world is drowning in crisis and even you are not among them.

M.F. Moonzajer

#92. Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Rick Majerus

#93. I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#94. And there's another thing: a man should stand up to his bad luck, to his mistakes, to his conscience and all that sort of thing. Why--what else would you have to fight against.

Joseph Conrad

#95. 'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.

Colin Trevorrow

#96. I really don't like to formulate what I believe because, like a quantum phenomenon, it varies from day to day, and anyway there's a sort of bad luck attached to expressing yourself too clearly.

Jim Holt

#97. 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

#98. Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Orson Welles

#99. I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

Ozzy Osbourne

#100. 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