“Bad things happen periodically, and they’re going to happen to somebody. Why not you?”

“You are going to survive. And good things are going to start to happen again. And one day you are going to look back and this will not even be such a bad thing”

Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American writer and lecturer

“Now everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“Q - If your children ever ask you, “why do bad things happen to good people?” what will you tell them?”

Dana Gould (1964) Comedian and comedy writer

“Like a horse, honey, somebody's gonna break you.'
'Never. Going. To. Happen.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

“In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.”

Richard Dawkins book The Magic of Reality

“Bad things are not the worst things that an happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up when bad things are happening because that’s when
they’re needed most.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle