Terry Pratchett Quotes

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

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

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

When luck ain't with you it's against you." ~pg 92

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

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

The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

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

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul.