Befall Someone Quotes

#1. I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Emil Cioran

#2. To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Henry Rollins

#3. The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#4. Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, God forbid that it should ever befall me!

Plutarch

#5. I used to suppose that certain evils could never befall a being in possession of a sound mind; that true virtue supplies us with energy which vice can never resist; that it was always in our power to obstruct, by his own death, the designs of an enemy who aimed at less than our lives.

Charles Brockden Brown

#6. The greatest curse that can befall a free people, is civil war.

Alexander H. Stephens

#7. A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Chris Pine

#8. Gripping his sword, Jace gave a slight nod to assure him that he'd take on the whole village and die before letting any harm befall Kyrin. Satisfied, Kaden and Trev went on.

Jaye L. Knight

#9. In such a state, humility is the virtue of men, and their only defense; to walk humbly with God, never doubting, whatever befall, that His will is good, and that His law is right.

Paul Elmer More

#10. What shall befall me in the pursuance of this work, I refer to the disposal of Almighty God, whose glory is dearer to me, not only than my liberty, but than my life.

John Biddle

#11. I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

Joseph Addison

#12. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#13. yes, life is a beautiful journey
no one knows what the future will be
death will befall us one day
the soul will depart one day
why worry about such things
who knows what the future will be

Hlovate

#14. Your face is bright with the love of the Lord. Our souls are singing together, despite the evil that threatens to befall us.

DiAnn Mills

#15. A healthy human environment is one in which we try to make sense of our limits, of the accidents that can always befall us and the passage of time which inexorably changes us.

Rowan Williams

#16. The more advanced the teacher, the better for you. The fifth degree black belt is so expert that they will understand that you're a beginner and throw you perfectly so that no harm will befall you.

Frederick Lenz

#17. Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Rabindranath Tagore

#18. If you worry about every 'what if' that might befall you, your fears will paralyze you.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#19. Whoever said, "I'll give you the world," to their significant other, must have had bad intentions.

Anthony Liccione

#20. They reminded me of the people of my village, their indomitable spirit in the face of disaster, their unshakable belief that no matter what might befall them, life was basically good and the world benign.

Lian Hearn

#21. Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.

Seneca.

#22. In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#23. Our mission is to speak the truth to power. We send home that first rough draft of history. We can and do make a difference in exposing the horrors of war and especially the atrocities that befall civilians.

Marie Colvin

#24. Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Pope John Paul II

#25. No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

Frank Herbert

#26. If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Epicurus

#27. There are two great injustices that can befall a child. One is to punish him for something he didn't do. The other is to let him get away with doing something he knows is wrong.

Robert Gardner

#28. No matter what calamities befall him in everyday life, the true hacker still needs the pressure and inconvenience of four hours of trudging in wind or rain or sleet or sun (or all of them at once), hacking at a white pellet that seems to have a mind of its own and a lousy sense of direction.

Tom O'Connor

#29. The Reason"

My life is vile
I hate it so
I'll wait awhile
And then I'll go.

Why wait at all?
Hope springs alive,
Good may befall
I yet may thrive.

It is because I can't make up my mind
If God is good, impotent or unkind.

Stevie Smith

#30. Religious fervor controlled by prejudice and ignorance is the greatest calamity that can befall a nation.

John R. Musick

#31. Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

Gautama Buddha

#32. Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

Joseph Addison

#33. Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

Lemony Snicket

#34. I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

John Marston

#35. Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge us.

Jacques De Molay

#36. The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

Marcus Tullius Cicero