The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My first failure was to be born a child not wanted by his father or mother, as they parted shortly after I was born.
My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
I agree with Sophocles: the greatest luck is not to have been born - but, as the joke goes on, very few people succeed in it.
I now believe that there's only a certain amount of good luck in the world, and so if something good happens to me, that means something bad has to happen to somebody, somewhere.
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.
The luckiest thing that ever happened to me was that my father didn't believe in God, and so he had no hang-ups about souls.
I felt like the luckiest kid in the world because God had put me on the ground in Texas. I actually felt sorry for those poor little kids that had to be born in Oklahoma or England or some place. I knew I was living in the best place in the world.
Misfortune was my god.