Eric Davis Quotes

It wasn't his, it wasn't my fault, we both had nothing except patience, but Death has none. I saw him come (how meanly!) and I watched him as he took and took: none of it I could claim as mine.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

You get to a place where you do your job, and then you dust your hands off and say, 'Okay, my job is done. Now, it's in the stars. We'll see what happens.' There's nothing I can do to affect it.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

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

There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

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

We are truly to be pitied.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

It's never fun to get swept, but it's going to happen.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

For no fault of mine, I lost everything.

I would say that it's wrong to milk someone's misery.