Bad Things Happen Quotes

“Sometimes bad things have to happen before good things can.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick, Crescendo

“Bad things can happen, and often do--but they only take up a few pages of your story; and anyone can survive a few pages.”
― James A. Owen, The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“It's decidedly bizzare, when the Worst Thing hppens and you find yourself still conscious, still breathing.”
― Elisa Albert, The Book of Dahlia

“I wanted to say something to make her pain go away and make everything better. But, I realized that there was no answer. Bad things happen to good people. Rain always falls on the people who deserve nothing less than the sun.”
― Mackenzie Herbert, Chasing Trains

“The good and the bad things are part of life. Accept it. The bad is a learning process, you will surpass it. If you do you will be happy and it will be a good thing.”
― Ann Marie Aguilar

“I figure, sometimes, bad things happen to us so we can achieve a higher purpose and attain greater happiness and fulfillment in life.”
― Omoakhuana Anthonia

“The world seems to want us to be sad and angry because bad things frequently happen. But I say we should feel the opposite. We should be happy and cheerful because good things happen. We should be delighted to see the sun rise and stars glow and rainbows color stormy skies. We should savor every simple breath and eat each meal with gratitude. We should slumber in sweet dreams and relish moments of laughter and love. We should take more notice of the joys and kindnesses that do exist, still dictating the actions of millions of good people all over the world. Life is filled with pleasant moments, not just grief. We should be happy because this is true.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year

“Shit hits the fan
so fertilizer
can rain.”
― Jackie Viramontez

“Sometimes you go through life and the wrong thing happens.”
― Jennifer Manske Fenske, The Wide Smiles of Girls

“It's sad that bad things have to happen in order for us to stop and look around.”
― Megan Duke, Infinite Limits: A Conclusion to Small Circles

“...accepted that bad things rose out of thin air, in the middle of normal life- when you weren't even looking, even if you were being careful, or good.”
― Lorna Jane Cook, Outside Wonderland: A Novel

“Unless you refuse the bad things happening to you, you will continue to suffer with your own consent!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We don’t widely accept the idea that bad things happen for uncontrollable reasons because of fear. How could that be? If that is true, we can’t make sense of it with our cognitive brains. And that is scary. If that is true, there is no way for us to control those things while in human form. And that is scary. So we search for meaning, a less scary understanding. And we usually end up assuming the victim is to blame.”
― Elisabeth Corey

“Bad things happen all the time to good people who've done nothing to deserve them. Only you can choose how you handle it. Whether to press through and overcome it or succumb to self-pity.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Never Date a Doctor

“Mathematics tells us that knowledge of all infinite futures is not possible - is this why bad things happen?

Has science killed God?”
― R.J. Hogarth, From Dust to DNA

“Life’s not so much filled with good or bad things. They are just things, but . . . if we give our ‘things’ to someone bigger than us, they become . . . what makes us a better person. So even something we might deem as bad can be good.”
― Jenny Knipfer, Silver Moon

“Maggie resisted the urge to explain to the other woman that life was not fair, that it had never been fair, that terrible things happened all the time that nobody planned on, that even when you tried your hardest, you didn't always get what you wanted.”
― Christina Henry, Good Girls Don’t Die

“Bad things are actually good things for awakening! But the best thing is to be awakened before the bad things happen!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“As humans, our sense of doom is grossly overstated in literature and movies.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Ellipsis

“I don't suppose anybody really knows how bad a thing can be until it actually happens.”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“Don't expect anything bad to happen, but be prepared for everything.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“«Le cose brutte succedono, Zenath. Succedono e basta a volte, senza che qualcuno ne abbia la colpa...»”
― Alessio Signoriello, Saga della fenice: Zenath degli Aelish Odil