Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

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.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

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

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

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

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.

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

Good luck tended to avoid me.

Fate, I think, is a thief.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

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

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

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

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth, but nobody knows how to stay out of it's way.