Eddie Slovik Quotes

I married a woman who is much better than me, I'm very fortunate to be with her and I know I'll be happy with her the rest of my life.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Dying is only one thing to be sad over... Living unhappily is something else.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Fate, I think, is a thief.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

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

No man is happy; he is at best fortunate.

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

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

I'm a fatalist.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

If you're always battling against getting older, you're always going to be unhappy, because it's going to happen anyhow.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

I was happier before, when I lead a normal life.

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.