Judith McNaught Quotes

Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.

Sometimes really, really bad things happen to people, and there is no explanation and no reason whatsoever.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

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.

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

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.

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

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

the best people have the rottenest luck

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

Why bad things happen to good people

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

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

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

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

Bad things happen sometimes.

God often gives nuts to toothless people.

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

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

Sometimes terrible things just happen to the wrong people.

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

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