Bad luck Quote by Denis Johnson Download Open image ““If illness didn’t kill you, you died of bad luck.”” — Denis Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad luck Luck
“What disease would keep you alive, even when you're promised death? A disease kills. A miracle saves.” — K. Weikel Copy Share Image
“No matter how lucky a person is, the moment he decides he wants to die, there's nothing that will keep him alive.” — Yu Hua Copy Share Image
“People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.” — Robert Buettner Copy Share Image
“Why did I need to see someone else's bad luck? To feel glad it was not mine? To scare myself into thinking it still… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as 'bad luck', only bad people and their karma that follows...” — Robert Juarez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that bad luck always flows like the sea to me. Hardly has one wave of bad luck subsided, when another washed… — Chun Yu Wang Copy Share Image
“Luck was its own thing entirely, a free agent. And believing that something so fickle would ever be on your side, that it could… — L.C. Fiore Copy Share Image
“Death would not be called bad, O people, if one knew how to truely die.” — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
“You’ve never felt good. Your suffering protects you. Pain is the ransom you have gladly paid not to be free.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“He had laid his head back until his scalp had contacted his spine, that far back, and opened his throat, and a sound rose in the auditorium like a wind coming from all four directions, low and terrifying, rumbling up from the ground beneath the floor, and it gathered into a roar that sucked at the hearing itself, and coalesced… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
“Everything is arranged," John Robertson told me. Thank God." I forgot to mention that we appear to have one small problem," he said. Okay..." Evidently it seems Winston Holder has already left this morning to the border and Gbarnga. He took a journalist in." A journalist? Who?" I don't know who. They thought it must be you." But it wasn't… — Denis Johnson Copy Share
Before this moment I'd lived as a mind. Body, heart, soul, intellect, so we care ourselves into parts. But the whole of us, what… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I’d been staying at the Holiday Inn with my girlfriend, honestly the most beautiful woman I’d even known, for three days under a phony… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“All of this while I left lifted by a strange new medium, a strange element--I now tell you that I was newly buoyant in… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“He didn’t know what country he was in, but he was at home in the universe.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“There's a dizzying thrill in a philosophy that can only be tested by suicide.” — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
I really enjoy writing novels. It's like the ocean. You can just build a boat and take off. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“Who said it? – probably Confucius – “I can’t beat a sculpture from a stone with a sledgehammer; I can’t free the soul of… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“A bus came. I climbed aboard and sat on the plastic seat while the things of our city turned in the windows like the… — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image
“You never talk to the pitcher when…” He shook his head. “You just never talk to the pitcher when--” “I just wanted to congratulate him on a good game--” “It’s not over ’til it’s over,” Chase said. “You jinxed me,” Jason said, crouching down in the corner, pressing his palms against his forehead, like he’d been struck with a migraine… — Rachel Hawthorne Copy Share
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Everyone knows it is bad luck to step on a toad or on the shadow of a tree, to walk under a ladder,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because the core of my personal philosophy is that everything that happens to us benefits us, I was also spared the futility of cursing my bad luck, lamenting the occurrence, or feeling as if I was a victim. The reason I was able to benefit from my accident was because of the way I looked at the event. Not for… — Anonymous Copy Share
The biggest trap, the biggest dungeon in life isn't laziness or bad luck, it's comfort. — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going -… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
“I was just beginning to wonder how long I would have to wait when finally a guard sauntered up and said, “Galloway, get your stuff, get your bed.” I ran to my cell to get my stuff and I grabbed the toothpaste. The toothpaste was in this clear tube and was clear like hair gel. It had a muted, watered-down… — Noah Galloway Copy Share
“Oh, I don’t buy lottery tickets... because if I won, and I was capable of that kind of odd luck, then I would also… — Chrissi Sepe Copy Share Image
“Before Tessa could answer, there was a knock at the door, and a familiar voice. "It's Jem. Tessa, are you there?" Charlotte sat bolt upright. "Oh! He mustn't see you in your dress!" Tessa stood dumbfounded. "Whyever not?" "It's a Shadowhunter custom—bad luck!" Charlotte rose to her feet. "Quickly! Hide behind the wardrobe!" "The wardrobe? But—" Tessa broke off with… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share
