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Quotes About Misfortune

No hay nada como contemplar la desgracia ajena para olvidarse de la propia.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Sometime when two people love each other, it's really unfortunate.
~ Joey Comeau
Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life is a rotten lottery.
~ John Waters
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
~ Rocko
Not everyone who's homeless is a drug-addict or in need of mental health care. Some are normal people who've been knocked down, and it can happen to you, too. Not all of us made bad life choices.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
One good thing, however, was there - Hope. It was the only good thing the casket had held among the many evils, and it remains to this day mankind's sole comfort in misfortune.
~ Edith Hamilton
Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined -- personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime.
~ Edna Buchanan
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
~ Anonymous
I'm a babe magnet... just the wrong end.
~ Anonymous
What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover? A rash of good luck.
~ Anonymous
Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies,It's your misfortune and none of my own,Whoopee ti yi yo, git along, little dogies,For you know Wyoming will be your new home.
~ Anonymous: Cowboy Songs
There was a man in our town,And he was wondrous wise;He jumped into a bramble bushAnd scratched out both his eyes.
~ Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes
Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck. Some things are simply more rare than others, and that's why there are locks.
~ Anthony Doerr
When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.
~ Knut Hamsun
The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
~ Gertrude Stein
Fortune, that favors fools.
~ Ben Jonson
We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
~ Charles Kuralt
I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.
~ Arjun Rampal
For a girl gone wrong, you can't beat the banks of the Wabash.
~ Florence King