Quotes About Misfortune

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

Life is full of hazards, selection also occurs in life, Geralt. Misfortune, sicknesses and wars also select. Defying destiny may be just as hazardous as succumbing to it.

The misfortune behaved in the eternal manner of misfortunes and hawks—it hung over them for some while waiting for an appropriate moment before it attacked.

And even if you don't make a mistake, an opportunity will arise to blame you for something. Some misfortune, some disaster, some pestilence, perhaps a plague or an epidemic, will fall on humanity… Then your guilt will descend on you. You will not be blamed for having been unable to prevent the plague, but for being unable to remove its effects. You shall be to blame for everything. And then fires will be lit under stakes.

I predict a bad end for your race, humans,' Zoltan Chivay said grimly. 'Every sentient creature on this earth, when it falls into want, poverty and misfortune, usually cleaves to his own. Because it's easier to survive the bad times in a group, helping one another. But you, humans, you just wait for a chance to make money from other people's mishaps.

Mr Brigden,' Stefan Skellen said coldly, standing over the prisoner spread out between the table legs, 'put the irons in the coals, please. Mr Echrade, please make sure no children are hanging around outside.' He leaned over and looked into the bound man's eyes. 'You haven't shown your face for ages, Rience,' he said. 'I was beginning to think some misfortune had befallen you.

La sventura si comportò secondo l'antichissimo uso delle sventure e degli avvoltoi: rimase qualche tempo sospesa su di loro, aspettando il momento opportuno per sferrare l'attacco.

They were outcasts. They were a strange, mixed bag created by war, misfortune and contempt. War, misfortune and contempt had brought them together and thrown them onto the bank, the way a river in flood throws and deposits drifting, black pieces of wood smoothed by stones onto its banks.

Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.

There must be something about me and teeth when I'm filming abroad, I don't have a lot of luck.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus

Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii, fuisse felicem. For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

And the pine trees that smell so wonderfully of spicy power. Shall I never see a mountain pine again? Really that would be no misfortune. To forgo something: that also has its fragrance and its power.

I came from a real tough neighborhood. Why, every time I shut the window I hurt somebody's fingers.

Wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said, "To kill one lover may be regarded as a misfortune. To kill three seems like carelessness?