Patrick Rothfuss Quotes

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?

When you're losing, crap happens.

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

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

I made bad decisions. I'm not denying that I made bad decisions.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

No one thinks fortune so blind as those she has been least kind to.

That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.

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.

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.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

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

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

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.

My life could have been so grim... really, really grim.

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

Three things can happen when you pass and two of 'em are bad.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Bad things happen sometimes.