Werner Herzog Quotes

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

My fortune somewhat resembled that of a person who should entertain an idea of committing suicide, and, altogether beyond his hopes, meet with the good hap to be murdered.

Misfortune was my god.

I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

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

The glass is always half empty. And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.

I was definitely born under an evil star. I have just been thrown out of the inn where I was staying, naked as a worm.

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

Some people think I have a death wish. I don't have one. I just make mistakes. Bad things happen to good people.

Poor Grendel's had an accident. So may you all.

I've just had some bad luck. I've had every injury known to man. I understand how people think, 'How can this be happening all the time to Gerry Cooney?' But it did.

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

The press always compared my family to the Kennedys - so much bad luck.

There's nothing more annoying than losing your phone, but this happened to me not once or twice, but three times in a row!

There is a certain comedy and pathos to trouble and accidents. Like when a driver has parked his car crookedly and then wonders why he has the bad luck of being hit.

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

Bad things can happen even to the best players.

Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

I didn't get good breaks on TV.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.