Quotes About Misfortune

You woke up on the wrong side of the oak tree, didn't you? (Acheron)

Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I'm sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Die familie heeft weinig geluk met gooiende vrouwen,' stelde Gilan droog vast. Lydia keek hem niet-begrijpend aan. 'Tja, Cassandra schakelde zijn broer met haar slinger uit, en nou heb jij hem met een pijl doorboord.

This man knocked on the wrong door." A perfect silence, Hunt's heart swelling with respect. "This man died looking for his daughter.

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

Era una de esas personas a las que te gustaría ayudar pero no puedes. Su empeño era encontrar a alguien que cuidara de ella, pero siempre encontraba a la persona equivocada. Sin excepción.

Thus those who suffered personal misfortune and those who suffered the pain of the wronged world were together in the nude tomb of wine, and could be like spirits, finally parted from this world of suffering and wrongs.

Everyone here constantly laughed at tragedy, as if insulting misfortune would keep it at bay.

This instant of awakening has conjured a vision of purity! The spirit leads us to God! Bitter misfortune!

Fue un hombre con mala suerte, de ésos que nacen con la marca de la derrota y nunca logran quitársela de encima.

Hija mía, afortunadamente, o desafortunadamente, no todo el mundo puede alcanzar la felicidad, ya sea en la vida o en los cuentos. La dicha de unos produce la desdicha de los otros. Es triste, pero es así.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Luck always seems to be against the man who depends on it.

Bad luck always comes in threes.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.

Or was this merely a riff on her unfortunate marriage? Her misfortune as part of his seduction?

Had any one met with a fall, or suffered a practical joke at the hands of one of the other girls, or lost a powderpuff, it was at once the fault of the ghost, of the Opera ghost.

Then the Miller fell off his horse.

And Solomon says, 'Fortunate is the man who is in dread of all, because he who possesses a fearless heart and a strong body will presume too much, and misfortune shall befall him.

And, therefore, I pray God both day and night that, to a wrathful man, He send but little might. It is a great harm and, for certain, a great misfortune to place an angry man in high position.

When uncultured minds, confined to a narrow range of personal experience, are under the pressure of continued misfortune, their inward life is apt to become a perpetually repeated round of sad and bitter thoughts: the same words, the same scenes are revolved over and over again, the same mood accompanies them—the end of the year finds them as much what they were at the beginning as if they were machines set to a recurrent series of movements.