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Quotes About Unlucky

I was unlucky enough to grow up under a military dictatorship which had very Left-wing, socialist policies. It's not something I would wish on anyone.
~ Kemi Badenoch
Never have anything to do with an unlucky place, or an unlucky man. I have seen many clever men, very clever men, who had not shoes to their feet. I never act with them. Their advice sounds very well, but they cannot get on themselves; and if they cannot do good to themselves, how can they do good for me?
~ Rothschild
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
~ Rick Bragg
Yesterday was my unlucky day. I pricked my right thumb with the blunt end of a big needle.
~ Anne Frank
Something terrible had happened in his life to send him back to her looking for revenge. He believed she had been unlucky for him and was to be blamed for some calamity, some failure or loss. But he didn't want to tell her about it; he just wanted her to suffer and be reduced, in his imagination and her own. There was no point in understanding any of this if she couldn't see a way through it.
~ Elizabeth Knox
Although there are occasions when it is more pronounced and awful and occasions when it is actually horrific, trauma does not just happen to a few unlucky people. It is the bedrock of our biology.
~ Mark Epstein
Entirety exists within me as exuberance. Only in empty longing, only in an unlucky desire to be consumed simply be the desire to burn with desire, is entirety wholly what it is.
~ bataille georges ii
There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life--life's experiences--are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never knew one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.
~ Mark Twain
Nonetheless, phobia about Friday the thirteenth is widespread.
~ Atul Gawande
My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
~ Woody Allen
Every city has streets that were built under an unlucky star. And they don't have to be located in the outskirts, either. Sometimes they run along beside gloomy factory buildings, sometimes along the railway lines or main highways, sometimes even beside a park or ravine that has survived through some oversight by the municipal authorities.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
~ Eddie Slovik
Everybody loves an accent. It you've been unlucky in love, consider pulling up stakes and moving to another country. Then you'll be the one with a neat foreign accent.
~ Marilyn vos Savant
Dominick Cruz is the unluckiest fighter of all time. I mean the injuries that this guy's had.
~ Matt Serra
Of course marriage isn't the solution to all life's ills. It can bring boatfuls of ills, if one is unlucky - think how unhappy people can be, yoked together.
~ Harriet Scott Chessman
Steve Bartman was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
~ Ryne Sandberg
Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!
~ Sophia Lee
She has the scared, hunted look of the unlucky.
~ Junot Diaz
She grinned. "Do I get a lucky hat?" "Only if you treat it well," he said, his hand over his heart, "and take it off before somethin' unlucky happens, as to not break its lucky streak.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I always thought of myself as being the unluckiest girl I knew. I was, I believed, a 'jinx' and I was 'jinxed', or so I thought!
~ Stephen Richards
I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Only two kinds of people die in battle, Fiddler had once said, fools and the unlucky.
~ Steven Erikson
So I carried that love, searching the world for a place to lay it down, but never found anywhere or anyone until I found you. I have been a poor man in many ways, Annabelle. Perhaps, upon reflection, even an unlucky one. But I was lucky in the most important way. That night after the fireworks, you told me your name and I told you mine.
~ Mitch Albom
i'm lonely, i'm tired, i'm sad, i'm happy, i'm lucky, i'm unlucky, i'm a million different things everyday of the week. But i suppose OK is one of them
~ Cecelia Ahern