Quotes About Misfortune

To be irritated by trifles, a man must be well off; for in misfortunes trifles are unfelt. SECTION

Each separate misfortune, as it comes, seems, no doubt, to be something exceptional; but misfortune in general is the rule.

The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole!

one is intelligent the more unfortunate as one is

People – communities, castes, races and even countries – carry their tragic histories and their misfortunes around like trophies, or like stock, to be bought and sold on the open market. Unfortunately

più pura la morte, più salata la sventura, (...) più onesta e paurosa la terra.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

As a teenager he had observed that success bred presumption and that presumption bred inattention. On the other hand misfortune fostered care and vigilance, by which losses might be reversed.

To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

Deeply idealistic — a moral people, Adams held, would elect moral leaders — he believed virtue the soul of democracy. To have a villainous ruler imposed on you was a misfortune. To elect him yourself was a disgrace.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

An accident is sometimes an unhappy woman's best friend.

There's only one thing worse than being sick...and that's being sick and poor.

Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

A pair of star-crossed lovers.

Misfortune is the mother's milk of journalism

What is the good of becoming strong if love bares your flesh to the teeth of misfortune? Why risk loving anyone or anything when life is so frail a thing that a strong wind can blow it out of your experience?

It appears that no one is so unfortunate that he or she is exempt from spending cuts, while at the same time no one is so fortunate as to be ineligible for a tax cut

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

Ya estaba preparando la huida, la muy cerda. Bien lo decía el proverbio chino: cuando la pobreza entra por la puerta, el amor salta por la ventana.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than to insufficient application. At the core of every true talent there is an awareness of the difficulties inherent in any achievement, and the confidence that by persistence and patience something worthwhile will be realized. Thus talent is a species of vigor.

It's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness? —ADOLF HITLER