Quotes About Misfortune

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Misfortune does not help us to believe.

Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.

And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.

The family that moved into a house and sound out several days later, in the worst way you can imagine, that their sewer line said nothing hooked up. True. And the crane did fall on the house, it was a town house, and the owners don't aren't in. True. And don't forget the house they had to knock down and start over. True.

Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half- way to meet it.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Because people tend to regard loss, wrong, bad, and failure as the same thing, it is little wonder that loss is a dirty word in our vocabulary.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents… —Stanley Cavell

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Sexy plus naive is a tragic combination.

There is only one genuine misfortune: not to be born.

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

We learn, also, that those who do only THAT WHICH IS RIGHT, endure nothing in misfortune but a trial of their virtue, and from trials well endured derive the surest claim to the protection of heaven.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die." —MEL BROOKS

And it's not because I'm tortured Or by some delirium swayed That I conjure up misfortune: It is just my trade.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

he smashes the black car of his luck.

What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?

Left to our own devices, we will notice some of the bad luck but overlook most of the dumb luck.

Piangi con me, supplica il padre di non uccidere tua sorella: anche i bambini si rendono conto delle sciagure.

I am a curse upon your house as well.