Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Quotes

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

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

The entire universe is working against me. I can't believe the entire universe could be that foolish!

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

Misfortune was my god.

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.

Bad things happen sometimes.

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 best people have the rottenest luck

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Three were the fates. Poverty that chains; gray drudgery that grinds the hope away, and gaping ignorance that starves the soul.

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.

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

An ill winde that bloweth no man to good.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.