Danielle Steel Quotes

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

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

It's kind of stupid that people think I'm just partying all the time.

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died.

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

The lucky person passes for a genius.

Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Most people have the wrong idea about me because I've been very private.

I've been misquoted a lot, and there's this tendency for people to put on to you how they think you should be or what they think you should feel.

Losing one's mother to a car crash at age four isn't a readily accessible idea of good luck, but I've come to accept it as the condition that was required for my luck to fall into place.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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

Misfortune was my god.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.

I think people seem to sort of associate me with danger. And I don't see that at all.

I learned hard lessons in life; I had to because I had so much happen: My mother died my sophomore year in high school. The next year, same day, my brother dropped dead. Two years after that, I got married because my girlfriend got pregnant. The year after my wedding, my father - who I had only recently met - died.

People don't get it; they think I'm rich. I'm not! I have no money.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

To people who don't know me I'm defined by a number of things that people know about me that are entirely untrue.