Quotes About Misfortune

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

I believe they think you some sort of a magnet for bad luck. As long as it attaches itself to you, it stays away from them.

Unawareness may cause misfortune, for the time being; however, ignorance certainly executes lifelong damage, to all dimensions of career and future.

Should misfortune visit the Court, that can only be the result of its continued abuses. If the palace is attacked, that can only be the result of misgovernment. I can hardly be held responsible for the outcome.

Boy, this really wasn't one of his days. He just couldn't put a foot right. It was a situation all too familiar to me, this business of setting off on the wrong foot and doggedly remaining there. Only I'd never watched it from the outside before. It was fascinating.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open arms into their misfortune?

Det var slutet för den unge, så gick Kullervo ur tiden, denne olycksfödde yngling, för att aldrig återkomma. /.../ Eftervärld, låt aldrig barnet uppfostras av onda viljor, vyssjas av förvända mänskor, vaggas fel av obekanta. Den som en gång fostrats galet, vyssjas bakvänt, vaggas illa, han blir aldrig som han borde,

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

But not unusual, for good girls sometimes come to bad ends.

Matar padre dá um azar danado. Sobretudo para o padre.

'Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

I got the biggest gut-punch in racing, for something I didn't do.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

He reacts slowly to every kind of stimulus, with that slowness which a protracted caution and a willed pride have bred in him – he tests an approaching stimulus, he is far from going out to meet it. He believes in neither 'misfortune' nor in 'guilt': he knows how to forget – he is strong enough for everything to have to turn out for the best for him. Very well, I am the opposite of a décadent: for I have just described myself.

Better, however, to be foolish with happiness than foolish with misfortune, better to dance awkwardly than walk lamely.

That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.