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Quotes About Unlucky

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.
~ Andrew Bogut
I don't mind being labelled devilish but I do mind being regarded as unlucky. The only way to answer that is by a string of successes.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
~ Dorothy Parker
A Very Short Song Once, when I was young and true, Someone left me sad- Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.
~ Dorothy Parker
So holy was the Bull that nothing unlucky might come near him; the youths and maidens must have both their parents alive, they must not have been under the taboo, the infection, of death.
~ Jane Ellen Harrison
Non sarò mica cascato su un uomo senza ambizioni? Vorrebbe dire essere ben sfortunati!
~ Dumas, Alexandre
This is the unluckiest day I've had since my rich uncle changed doctors.
~ Rex Stout
And he says I have lousy timing
~ Kelley Armstrong
If I had not known that the Bible shows demons are impersonators of the dead, I probably would have always continued to believe that Mum and I were just unlucky and had somehow attracted the wrong type of spirits to us. I'd have continued to believe we had mischievous or obnoxious spirits pretending to be my grandmother and sister, and that's why they later attacked us. It never before had crossed my mind as a spiritualist that all the spirits were imposters!
~ Jeff Harshbarger
Everybody in the world is capable of democratic development. Some people in the world are unlucky enough to get stuck with really bad political leadership and with really bad political institutions.
~ Condoleezza Rice
That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
~ Marilyn Monroe
These were my people: the abandoned, the unloved, the phenomenally unlucky.
~ Amy Bloom
But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.
~ Alexander Pope
I understand why people play [soccer]. ... I even learned how to talk the game. It was the opposite of trash talking—tidy talking. I suppose you'd have to call it. If you did something good, it was brilliant; something less than brilliant was useless; if all of you were useless together, you were rubbish; and if a person did something brilliant that nonetheless became useless, everyone cried, 'Oh, unlucky!
~ Adam Gopnik
Human misery was the trough from which she now fed herself and she felt more comfortable in the presence of other unlucky people. It made her feel less alone, less diminished.
~ Andrew Neiderman
Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
~ N. K. Jemisin
The truth is I am an unlucky honest man that speaks my sentiments to all and with emphasis.
~ Ron Chernow
Only in such passages do we see that Hamilton, for all his phenomenal success in the Continental Army, still felt unlucky and unlovely, still cursed by his past.
~ Ron Chernow
A child conceived on Christmas Eve is considered unlucky and will later resent his parents for their unholy transgression, their lack of control and piety. The child may be deformed with a harelip or be cursed with the ears and head of a wolf. Or the infant may be born a werewolf.
~ Jody Shields
The day was ill-omened from the beginning; one of those unlucky days when every little detail seems to go wrong and one finds oneself engaged in a perpetual and infuriating strife with inanimate objects. How truly fiendish the sub-human world can be on these occasions! How every atom, every cell, every molecule, seems to be leagued in a maddening conspiracy against the unfortunate being who has incurred its obscure displeasure!
~ Anna Kavan
Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation. You owe a debt, and not just to your Gods. You owe a debt to the unlucky.
~ Michael Lewis
I watched Tyson Fury vs Deontay Wilder 1 in America. I was in Miami at the time. We went out to watch it and it was a great fight. I thought Tyson Fury won the fight. I thought he was very unlucky not to get the decision.
~ Luke Campbell
but the young dead stay with us, they color our dreams, they make us wonder about ourselves, that we should be so unlucky, or clumsy, or so downright ordinary as to carry on without them. Yet
~ John Burnside
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