Bryce Courtenay Quotes

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

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

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

Fate can be one mean god at times.

There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life—life's "experiences"—are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side.

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

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

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

Who knows the end? What has risen may sink, and what has sunk may rise.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

How fortune brings to earth the over-sure!

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

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

One thing I've learned: You never know where life is taking you, but it's taking you.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.