Eddie Vedder Quotes

Bad things happen sometimes.

Misfortune was my god.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

2014 was a pretty bad year for me. Quite a lot of loss.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

I came from a place where there wasn't a lot of joy.

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.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

Growing up, I was not used to good things happening to 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.

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

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

I would not give my first 15 years to my worst enemy.

It's been a year of many more downs than ups.

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.

Everything went wrong for me in the 1990s.

Sadness is a privilege. To be mopey about something, that's a privilege. I did not grow up with that.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.