Quotes About Misfortune

There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely a comparison between one state and another, nothing more. Only someone who has suffered the deepest misfortune is capable of experiencing the heights of felicity.

There is neither happiness nor misfortune in this world, there is merely the comparison between one state and another, nothing more.

It needs misfortune to be able to dig up in those secret mines, which are hidden in man's soul.

No hay ventura ni desgracia en el mundo, sino la comparación de un estado con otro, he ahí todo. Sólo el que ha experimentado el como del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema. Es preciso haber querido morir, amigo mío, para saber cuán buena y hermosa es la vida.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had previously been dispersed, now they clashed in a narrow space; and, as you know, the clash of clouds produces electricity, electricity produces lightning and lightning gives light.

Un capitaliste chagrin est comme les comètes, il présage toujours quelque grand malheur au monde.

Misfortune is sometimes needed to plumb certain understandings of the actions of man.

Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge.

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

The happy and the powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

Il n'y a rien de si difficile à distinguer que les nuances qui séparent un malheur immérité d'une infortune que le vice a produite. Combien de misères sont à la fois le résultat de ces deux causes!

the Negro and the Indian. These two unhappy races have nothing in common; neither birth, nor features, nor language, nor habits. Their only resemblance lies in their misfortunes. Both of them occupy an inferior rank in the country they inhabit; both suffer from tyranny; and if their wrongs are not the same, they originate, at any rate, with the same authors.

I am well aware of the influence which the nature of a country and its political precedents exercise upon a constitution; and I should regard it as a great misfortune for mankind if liberty were to exist all over the world under the same forms.

Desire, if handled incorrectly, could become a curse.

Perhaps it's always true that when you wreck your own life you blame everyone else for your misfortune.

She knew that sometimes when you were supposed to feel lucky, all you felt was despair. You were guilty just because you had managed to live. For reasons you couldn't understand, that made no sense whatsoever, you were the one left unscathed.

Tuesdays were meant for accidents, disappointments, and bad news.

For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town.

No way this could be seen as probable or possible, unless you think of a blow between the eyes, a sudden calamity. The stroke of fate that leaves a man a cripple, the wicked joke that turns clear eyes into blind stones.

Rizal's greatest misfortune is being national hero of the Philippines.

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

As it was, they had never even managed a successful first date before their romance had gone the way of Romeo and Juliet's -- except that Romeo and Juliet didn't wake up the next day, leave the crypt and say, Now what?

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.