life's a bitch vs that's the way the ball bounces

life's a bitch

phrase
  • Life can be tough, unpleasant, unrewarding. 

that's the way the ball bounces

proverb
  • That is the way things happen 

How often have the words life's a bitch and that's the way the ball bounces occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )