Top 100 Quotes About Misfortune
#2. My uncle ... had the misfortune to be ever touched in his brain, and, as a convincing proof, married his maid, at an age when he and she both had more occasion for a nurse than a parson.
Charlotte Charke
#3. Then who is more miserable? One of whom I am about to speak. Who is that? He who is of a tyrannical nature, and instead of leading a private life has been cursed with the further misfortune of being a public tyrant. From
Plato
#4. Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
Clarence Darrow
#5. Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.
Benjamin Franklin
#6. misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.
Alexandre Dumas
#7. We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
Publilius Syrus
#8. some call their mistake a discovery;to others, their mistake is a misfortune and to most people a mistake is a deviation from the acceptable. A mistake is a mistake depending on what we think it is.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#9. Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
Orison Swett Marden
#10. When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.
Albert Camus
#11. Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.
Germain-Francois Poullain De Saint-Foix
#12. My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
Victor Hugo
#13. Is he aiming at doing anything, or simply undoing what's been done? It's the great misfortune of our government - this paper administration, of which he's a worthy representative.
Leo Tolstoy
#14. Rather the artist's delight in what becomes, the cheerfulness of artistic creation that defies all misfortune, is merely a bright image of clouds and sky mirrored in a black lake of sadness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. Finally, in every event which leads you to sorrow, remember to use this principle: that this is not a misfortune, but that to bear it like a brave man is good fortune.
Marcus Aurelius
#16. Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#17. The wheel of fortune [ ... ] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.
Philippa Gregory
#18. For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.
Honore De Balzac
#19. I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where it hit men who did not.
Charles M. Schwab
#20. Usually, we believe that our pain is a misfortune that needs to be fixed, but in fact, all pain (physical, mental, and emotional) is a necessary step towards becoming conscious.
Mada Eliza Dalian
#21. A theatrical spectacle is inherent whenever family members congregate and reacquaint themselves with powerful universal themes educed from homecomings including hugs, food, drink, conversation, politics, games, music, conflict, terror, mercy, smiles, tears, prayers, misfortune, and self-discovery.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#22. They say that eclipses are portents of disaster, because disasters are so common, and misfortune occurs often enough for these forecasts to be right, whereas if they said that eclipses were portents of good fortune they would often be wrong.
Blaise Pascal
#23. It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Jules Verne
#24. Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
Aesop
#25. It was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#27. She couldn't help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how - even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,
Tamera Alexander
#28. Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!
Timothy Pina
#29. had the misfortune of meeting up a parish employee
Faith Hunter
#30. There are only two kinds of women in the world, those who love shoes and those who had the misfortune to be born without the ability to experience total bliss on finding a pair of perfectly designed pumps in the right size at half price.
Jane Eldershaw
#31. Victims of misfortune are quick to sense another of their kind from a distance, but in old age they rarely become friends, which is in no way surprising: they have nothing to share together - not even hope.
Ivan Turgenev
#32. To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.
Thomas Malthus
#33. It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
Clay Shirky
#34. There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
Albert Camus
#35. The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.
Ralph Marston
#36. One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.
Zicheng Hong
#37. [Prudence] replaces [strength] by saving the man who has the misfortune of not possessing it from most occasions when it's needed.
Nicolas Chamfort
#38. Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.
Edward Rutherfurd
#39. The purpose of life is not to fight against evil and misfortune; it is to unveil magnificence.
Alan Cohen
#40. Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
Loretta Young
#41. Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
Mason Cooley
#42. For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Jane Austen
#44. And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.
Boris Pasternak
#45. The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#46. It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.
Wilkie Collins
#47. If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase our misfortunes and make them permanent.
Leonard Read
#48. An evil nature wielding great authority brings misfortune upon the community.
Aeschines
#49. Don't get too chummy with me, Cas. I'll eat you alive." - Swift
... "Was that a threat? God, you're the least intimidating pirate I've ever had the misfortune to meet." - Cas
Emily Skrutskie
#50. This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.
Lionel Barrymore
#52. The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#53. O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all joy, to strangle it, I pounced with the strength of a wild beast. I called to the plagues to smother me in blood, in sand, misfortune was my God.
Arthur Rimbaud
#54. The main thing holding the family back from a change in living quarters was far more their complete hopelessness and the idea that they had been struck by a misfortune like no one else in their entire circle of relatives and acquaintances.
Franz Kafka
#55. Sometimes it's possible to see misfortune coming and prepare for it, I guess, but most of the time, when a person disappears, it's as unexpected and shocking as hail in the middle of June.
Tiffany Baker
#56. The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.
Frantz Fanon
#57. If you love without evoking love in return - if through the vital expression of yourself as a loving person you fail to become a loved person, then your love is impotent, it is a misfortune.
Karl Marx
#59. A tendancy to melancholy ... let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
Abraham Lincoln
#60. We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore De Balzac
#61. The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good.
Luc De Clapiers
#62. This is the crux of the moral pessimists: if they really wanted to promote their neighbor's redemption, then they would have to resolve themselves to spoiling existence for him, and thus to being his misfortune; out of pity, they would have to
become evil!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now.
Bryant McGill
#64. Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp.
Lord Chesterfield
#65. Today, it may be THEM. Tomorrow it may be the OTHER. Just something to think about when thinking the finger of misfortune can't tap YOU on the shoulder" - A.H. Scott, January 29, 2017
A.H. Scott
#66. It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.
Bertrand Russell
#67. if Clinton was taken prisoner "it would be our misfortune, since the British government could not find another commander so incompetent to send in his place.
Ron Chernow
#68. Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
George Farquhar
#69. With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil
#70. Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
Albert Camus
#71. The eldest who had the misfortune of being too beautiful and had a far off look in her eyes. Madame Cohen had seen what could happen to girls like that, they were picked off like fruit on a tree, devoured by blackbirds.
Alice Hoffman
#72. It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about
David Lodge
#74. Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra
#75. In the traditional family structure of Persia ... one simply cannot discard close relatives just because one does not like them; rather one has to accommodate them, make allowances and accept them, like misfortune.
Shusha Guppy
#76. Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself
Rapsody
#77. it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.
Alexandre Dumas
#78. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita
#79. The truth is that she spoke about her misfortune without any shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#80. It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.
Susanna Kaysen
#81. Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.
Dalai Lama
#82. A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.
Adolf Hitler
#83. Nations are like men - growing old, never young. My son had the misfortune to be a young man of an old nation.
Gene Wolfe
#84. Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
Dorothy Parker
#85. If you are crying fight against it! If you are regretting walk forward! Only complaining about your misfortune, you're nothing but a common pig!
Yana Toboso
#86. Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we
we divine it.
Sophie Swetchine
#87. Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune.
James Ellis
#88. I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.
Seneca.
#89. Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
Joyce Rachelle
#90. To lose one child, Mr. DeTamble, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose three looks like carelessness.
Audrey Niffenegger
#91. To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.
Mason Cooley
#92. The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is developed by the blows of the lapidary.
Francis Alexander Durivage
#93. One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.
Edith Hamilton
#95. The thing about having friends who are as close as blood, as true as your own heart, as the twins had been to her, is you don't bother much with other people. And if you have the misfortune to get left behind, well, you've made yourself a lonely nest to live in.
Laini Taylor
#96. What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?
Robert G. Allen
#97. The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
Franz Kafka
#98. For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
Albert Camus
#99. Then came an evil wind, that blew the seeds of misfortune into my garden.
Diana Gabaldon
#100. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
Haruki Murakami
