Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Luck's always to blame.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

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 have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

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

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

Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons, and mine was a shabby life.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

I won't talk of bad luck. I don't believe in it.

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.

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

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

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