Unlucky Quotes

“How unlucky I am that this should happen to me. But not at all. Perhaps, say how lucky I am that I am not broken by what has happened, and I am not afraid of what is about to happen. For the same blow might have stricken anyone, but not many would have absorbed it without capitulation and complaint.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Sometimes, you're the one who strikes it lucky. Sometimes, it's the other poor bastard who's left with the short straw, and you just have to shut up and get on with it.”
― M.L. Stedman, The Light Between Oceans

“May be its mine bad-luck
Or yours not to get me
But I still have hope
Of being yours”
― Hasil Paudyal, Blended Words

“You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.”
― Amit Kalantri

“And instead my beloved, luck sent you back to me colder than ashes, later than shadow.”
― Sophocles, Electra

“Bad things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to okay people. Bad things happen to everyone.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

“I just want to serve and help people and be good to everybody, only it always goes wrong somehow—I think about suicide all the time, every bloody day I want to die and stop this torture, but I go crawling on . . . I'm so Christ-awful bloody lonely I could scream with it for hours on end.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Give me another Chance
Then,
You will Get
Less than I Gain...”
― Hasil Paudyal, Blended Words

“I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all.”
― S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped

“Is it giving up if you give what you have
& the universe still fucks you”
― Emily Skaja, Brute: Poems

“We are confident that evil can never happen to us until it does”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Most criminals were dumb, and he took the view that the whole science of criminology was essentially flawed, since much of its theory was based on the study of criminals who had been caught, and were therefore either stupid or unlucky, as opposed to the study of those who had not been caught, and were therefore smart and had a little luck on their side, but just a little. Luck ran out, but smart was for life.”
― John Connolly, The Burning Soul

“Fate would have it that the timing of your birth determines your measure of luck. You’re either born lucky or you’re not, though the only way to know for sure is to test it. The problem with that is most people find out they’re not lucky at the worst possible moment, usually in the throes of death or arrest.”
― Tanya Thompson, Red Russia

“I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Don't mention your fortune in front of an unfortunate.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“People think they know about misfortune and bad luck. But there was being unlucky-like when you tripped over your shoelaces or dropped a five-dollar bill in the subway or ran into your ex when you were wearing three-day-old sweatpants--then there was the kind of bad luck that Orquídea had. Bad luck woven into the birthmarks that dotted her shoulders and chest like constellations. Bad luck that felt like the petty vengeance of a long-forgotten god.”
― Zoraida Córdova, The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina

“Finding someone to love for the rest of your life should be the easiest thing in the world. I guess the easiest things are the hardest for me.”
― Julian Aguilar

“I'm not a lucky person who makes radiant decisions which are obviously right.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“In a sea of a thousand mines, the crew of the Lifemaker had to be lucky a thousand times, but in that same sea, the Regime only had to be lucky once.”
― Dean F. Wilson, Lifemaker

“Busy in a bus or lacking luck you poke to pluck a pick-up truck.
Utterly shocked you choke in the lock and check if you chuck a buck or if you are stuck in the muck.
So you should lurk in a day like this in such a murky lucky way.
In a day when you don't know if you laugh or cry...
Errands wait for those who are late in the busiest day.
Such day that defies all your senses and makes you want to fly...
To fly away!”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic

“The gang that I’m a part of was best known for its unity. But right now, it was quickly disintegrating, not from forces without, but from within. We were turning our guns on each other. I had already survived two such encounters that could’ve been fatal. Instead, both times I just limped away with a shot to my left leg. I wonder how unlucky can one leg be, to be hit twice with a .357 magnum. But who’s complaining? My left leg is as good as ever and I’m alive to fight another day.


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The gang that I’m a part of was best known for its unity. But right now, it was quickly disintegrating, not from forces without, but from within. We were turning our guns on each other. I had already survived two such encounters that could’ve been fatal. Instead, both times I just limped away with a shot to my left leg. I wonder how unlucky can one leg be, to be hit twice with a .357 magnum. But who’s complaining? My left leg is as good as ever and I’m alive to fight another day.”
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Up in My Father

“You in the Milieu are lucky. You can change your form to do whatever you desire. Not all in the Dreammaker's realm are so lucky. As I am, they are locked to one form. - The Malwatch”
― Scaylen Renvac

“I can not understand what luck means unless some unluckiness happens to me.”
― Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC

“A person with a remarkable ability for horse riding.
People: You are so lucky and blessed to have this.
One fine day he falls off his horse & breaks his leg.
People: You are so unlucky. You ruined your career.
Then war breaks out and all the young men are sent to battle.
People: You're soo lucky at least, you're here with your family.

...and the story continued as "lucky" and "unlucky" until he died.”
― Mohammed Israil

“Everything presents itself to me, in the coarsest, most loathsome light.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“2020 was such a shitty year, 2020 should replace 666 and 13 as the number that symbolizes evil and misfortune.”
― Oliver Markus Malloy, Inside The Mind of an Introvert

“It’s not clinical. The doctor says it’s situational depression. It’s just that I keep on having new…Situations.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Think of a fisherman fishing at dusk in the middle of a calm sea, and think of yourself amidst the unbearable noise of a terrible city crowd! Yes, that's right, how unlucky you are!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“…He’d believed that in the final analysis, there were only two kinds of human beings: the lucky ones and the unlucky ones.

The lucky ones sucked the life out of those around them and only grew stronger. The unlucky ones were condemned to lose everything and spend the remainder of their days slinking the lower depths.”
― Rieko Yoshihara, Ai no Kusabi Vol. 4: Suggestion

“This was the place where the Darcys lived - Plymouth Street, Surry Hills, Sydney, in an unlucky house which the landlord had renumbered from Thirteen to Twelve-and-a-Half.”
― Ruth Park, The Harp in the South