Quotes About Ill-fortune

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.

Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune cast it down.

Initially, the talk of misery spreads throughout the neighborhood, becoming in turn the rumor of ill-fortune and later the certainty of doom.