Quotes About Misfortune

It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

When some misfortune threatens, consider seriously and deliberately what is the very worst that could possibly happen. Having looked this possible misfortune in the face, give yourself sound reasons for thinking that after all it would be no such very terrible disaster. Such reasons always exist, since at the worst nothing that happens to oneself has any cosmic importance.

It is the part of courage, when misfortune comes, to bear without repining the ruin of our hopes, to turn away our thoughts from vain regrets. This degree of submission to Power is not only just and right: it is the very gate of wisdom.

Politicians do not find any attractions in a view which does not lend itself to party declamation, and ordinary mortals prefer views which attribute misfortune to the machinations of their enemies.

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

But the modern man, when misfortune assails him, is conscious of himself as a unit in a statistical total; the past and the future stretch before him in a dreary procession of trivial defeats. Man himself appears as a somewhat ridiculous strutting animal, shouting and fussing during a brief interlude between infinite silences.

Beauty, it would seem, was both a blessing and a curse.

Penalties are like the lottery and you miss them when luck is not on your side.

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. Thus, march by an indirect route and divert the enemy by enticing him with a bait. So doing, you may set out after he does and arrive before him. One able to do this understands the strategy of the direct and the indirect.

Las armas son instrumentos de mala suerte; emplearlas por mucho tiempo producirá calamidades.

Nothing good happened to Romeo or Juliet.

To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune.

No one ever understood disaster until it came.

The distinction is essential. Fault implies a failure or weakness for which a person should be held to account, if not outright blamed. Misfortune is an unhappy circumstance, something bad that has happened to a blameless good person.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es un acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

La empatía por la desgracia ajena tiene un límite. Pasado el cual comienzas a sentir que su infortunio es una acto de maldad, cuya víctima eres tú.

I have been run over by the speeding chariot of fate, caught up in its spiked wheels." - "I hate it when that happens," said Stephen.

I hope the next time you get a double-decker strawberry ice-cream cone the ice cream part falls off the cone and lands in Australia.

had the misfortune of meeting up a parish employee

comes a cropper

come a cropper

Le atrajeron con engaños, que el creyó, por su desdicha, y se acercó, satisfecho, con sus buques, a la orilla. ¡Malhaya el corazón noble que de los malos se fía!, que al poner el pie en la arena, le prendieron los realistas.

La felicidad es pasajera, la desdicha recurrente.