Top 100 Quotes About Misfortunes
#1. Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day.
Seneca.
#2. I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.
Osamu Dazai
#3. Lack of wisdom does not make a fool. A fool, in the truest sense, is the man who regards his own misfortunes or those of others as a source of doubt or criticism of the infinite mercy of the Gohonzon.-Josei Toda
Daisaku Ikeda
#4. My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
Giacomo Casanova
#5. For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#7. Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.
Shinjo Ito
#8. The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving
#9. Misfortunes one can endure
they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults
ah!
there is the sting of life.
Oscar Wilde
#11. To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.
Timothy Winter
#12. The less we parade our misfortunes the more sympathy we command.
Orville Dewey
#13. Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore De Balzac
#14. History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
#16. Misfortunes never come singly'. First,
Anne Frank
#17. I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
Gail Anderson-Dargatz
#18. Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good job of what is after all a matter of very small consequence.
W. Somerset Maugham
#20. During mental prayer, it is well, at times, to imagine that many insults and injuries are being heaped upon us, that misfortunes have befallen us, and then strive to train our heart to bear and forgive these things patiently, in imitation of our Saviour. This is the way to acquire a strong spirit.
Philip Neri
#21. Count your blessings, not your misfortunes, for your blessings will be the light of hope, in the dark of hopelessness.
Kaitlin D.S. Cammie
#22. The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.
Hesiod
#23. Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
#24. Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Boyd K. Packer
#25. Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
Aristotle.
#26. Mine is the disaster, if disaster there be; and to be severely distressed at one's own misfortunes does not show that you love your friend, but that you love yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#27. My childhood was surrounded by trouble, illness, and my dad's alcoholism, but as I said, we just didn't have the time to be impressed by all those misfortunes. I have an idea that the Irish possess a built-in don't-give-a-damn that helps them through all the stress.
James Cagney
#28. We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.
Marjane Satrapi
#29. We should learn, by reflecting on the misfortunes which have attended others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves. [They have, are and will be experienced by others as well as worse.]
William Melmoth
#30. There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Alexandre Dumas
#31. Many girls have not the advantage I have and I [am] very very glad that satan has not geven me boils and many other Misfortunes.
Marjorie Fleming
#33. Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
Voltaire
#34. You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it
which is what matters most.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#35. Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
George Washington
#36. He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish line. The rest was darkness.
John Green
#37. She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.
Gayle Forman
#39. She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some part of mortality, and that the time might come when she would herself look back with wonder and perhaps envy on her having known no greater vexation.
Jane Austen
#40. If a great man struggling with misfortunes is a noble object, a little man that despises them is no contemptible one.
William Cowper
#41. Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
Sam Levenson
#42. Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.
Pierre Charron
#43. Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Livy
#44. I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher
#45. Turning oneself to the misfortunes of others is the best way to dispense with personal troubles. Hadn't Lord Byron himself said, "The busy have no time for tears"?
Martha Hall Kelly
#46. By speaking of our misfortunes we often relieve them.
[Fr., A raconter ses maux souvent on les soulage.]
Pierre Corneille
#47. With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#48. When the houses of the great collapse
Many little people are slain.
Those who have no share in the fortunes of the mighty
Often have a share in their misfortunes. The plunging
wain
Drags the sweating beasts with it into the abyss.
Bertolt Brecht
#49. History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
Simon Sebag Montefiore
#50. It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus
#51. I have never been able to be so allured by the prospect of advantages or so terrified by misfortunes, swayed by honours or fettered by affection, nay not even so smitten by the fear of death, as to enter upon marriage.
Elizabeth I
#52. We act empty and innocent but we are fueled by distortions of lives led in discontent trading misfortunes cause faith is one thing that is hard to deliver it feels funny being free.
Amy Ray
#53. During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Norm MacDonald
#54. We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.
Michel De Montaigne
#55. For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.
Plutarch
#56. I suppose once you've been accused of being a witch, you're never really safe. People may blame all sorts of accidents and misfortunes on you.
Hugh Lofting
#57. And what did the great British historian Edward Gibbon have to say about the human record so far? He said, "History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind." The same can be said about this morning's issue of The New York Times.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle
#59. Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
Aaron Hill
#60. Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man
Cesare Pavese
#62. O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
Abdul-Qadir Gilani
#63. Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#64. There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.
Nelson Mandela
#65. When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
William Shenstone
#66. Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.
Gautama Buddha
#67. 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
#69. What can I now do to use my misfortunes constructively, to turn my suffering to advantage by finding something worthwhile to do that I could not have done so well if these tragedies had not occurred?
James C. Crumbaugh
#70. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius
#71. We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body, when they are such as he cannot help; were this thoroughly considered we should no more laugh at a man for having his brains cracked than for having his head broke.
Alexander Pope
#72. To bear the country's disgrace is to rule the shrines of soil and grain. To bear the country's misfortunes is to be the king of the world.
Laozi
#73. A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Joseph Addison
#74. Gossipers derive pleasure from other people's misfortunes. It might be fun to peer into somebody else's personal or professional faux pas at first, but over time, it gets tiring, makes you feel gross, and hurts other people.
Travis Bradberry
#75. It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate.
Nancy Pickard
#76. Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
Bertolt Brecht
#77. we believe our problems are the greatest and our misfortunes the worst, there is always someone out there who has suffered more.
Devdutt Pattanaik
#78. History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
#79. We grossly overestimate the length of the effect of misfortune on our lives. You think that the loss of your fortune or current position will be devastating, but you are probably wrong. More likely, you will adapt to anything, as you probably did after past misfortunes.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#80. There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on ... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.
Oliver Goldsmith
#81. Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.
Aesop
#82. With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
Pliny The Elder
#84. One should not crow over the defeat even of those who richly deserve to be defeated. That was dangerous, because then you yourself might get what you deserve for revelling in the misfortunes of another.
Alexander McCall Smith
#85. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#86. our passions often become our misfortunes
Me
#87. We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#88. It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.
Thomas De Quincey
#89. Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
Harvey MacKay
#90. One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.
Voltaire
#91. Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
Sophocles
#92. Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want.
Edgar Allan Poe
#93. And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#94. It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis De Sade
#95. men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This
Mark Twain
#96. It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in order
to have prosperity.
Sunday Adelaja
#97. It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#98. Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus
Robert Galbraith
#100. Let others be afraid, but the soul is not afraid of anything. It lives according to its own laws. It is bigger than space and older than time. It gives courage against all the misfortunes of life. - RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Leo Tolstoy
