Gloria Vanderbilt Quotes

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

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

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

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

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

To the dumb question, 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, 'Why not?'

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.

Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place.

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

There are good people who are dealt a bad hand by fate, and bad people who live long, comfortable, privileged lives. A small twist of fate can save or end a life; random chance is a permanent, powerful player in each of our lives, and in human history as well.

The universe is not fair and it is never going to be fair.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

Nothing I did contributed to me having cancer, so I can't sit back and say, 'Oh why me.' Why not me? Why does tragedy always have to hit someone else?

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

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs.

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.

During the season, there are all types of games - ones where you deserve more than you get and ones where you get more than you deserve.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice.

How often are we forced to charge fortune with partiality towards the unjust!

Some trees flourish, others die. Some cattle grow strong, others are taken by wolves. Some men are born rich enough and dumb enough to enjoy their lives. Ain't nothing fair. You know that.

The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.