Jacques Roumain Quotes

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

I'm an unlucky charm... don't go anywhere with me.

Misfortune was my god.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

Every once in awhile, we all get a bad hand dealt to us.

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

I am not lucky. I am the type who would go to Lourdes and drown in the waters.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

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

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Trouble follows you like a shadow, Gillian. You're prone to injuries. I swear to God, if a tree decided to fall right now, it would find your head to land on." "Oh, for heaven's sake," she muttered. "I'll admit that I have had a run of bad fortune, but—" He wouldn't let her continue. "A run of bad fortune? Since I've known you, you've been beaten, stabbed and now shot with an arrow. If this keeps up, you'll be dead in another month

Misfortunes never come singly.

I have bad car juju." -Stephanie Plum

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.