Unfortunate Circumstances Quotes

…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.

Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.

It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.

When you're losing, crap happens.

They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for the Oscar and there was no ad in the newspapers to say it was running. So it was literally killed.

I love 'Titanic' and the idea that you're kind of rooting for Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to survive despite the fact that you know that they're not going to.

If the club decides to sack me, honestly, I don't feel this pressure.

Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

No man loves the bearer of bad tidings.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

I am the most unfortunate man in the history of parties: always run by my friends when sure to be defeated, and now betrayed for a nomination when I, or any one, would be sure of an election.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

I've had a life where things have worked out for me beyond my wildest dreams, and my brother's had just the opposite.

Maybe we’ve done the best thing but sometimes have done it in the worst way.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally.

Wherever I go, I'm followed by trouble.

Times were poor. I wore hand-me-downs. And because the kids just older than me in the family were girls, sometimes I had to wear my sisters' hand-me-downs.

mentally deranged …. A hideous hermaphroditical character .... the blind, bald, crippled, toothless, querulous Adams

One of our most unfortunate believes is that a person who lives on welfare is not only unfortunate, but somehow defective.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.