Quotes About Misfortune

Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...

NeÅ¡tÄ›stí ?iní zranitelným a neustálé utrpení nespravedlivým.

That is how our arch-adventurer likes to live, moving on from explosion to explosion of fortune and misfortune.

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune.

Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or sorrow. That innocence (like every kind of innocence children have) is rooted in their trust of you, one that you will shortly be obliged to betray; whether it is fair or not, whether you can help it or not, you are always the ultimate guarantor or destroyer of that innocence.

Childhood is, or has been, or ought to be, the great original adventure, a tale of privation, courage, constant vigilance, danger, and sometimes calamity. For the most part the young adventurer sets forth equipped only with the fragmentary map -marked HERE THERE BE TYGERS and MEAN KID WITH AIR RIFLE-that he or she has been able to construct out of patchwork of personal misfortune, bedtime reading, and the accumulated local lore of the neighbourhood children.

Si una cosa va mal, tiende a seguir mal. Eso se refleja en el dicho popular que afirma que las desgracias nunca vienen solas. La teoría de la complejidad revela que el dicho popular es acertado. Las desgracias se agrupan. Las cosas siempre van de mal en peor. Ése es el mundo real.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

The weak and misbegotten shall perish: first principle of our brotherly love. And they shall be given every assistance.

To love a fool is a misfortune, but does not make one a fool.

Bad luck that my first glimpse of Venice was marred by an insult.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

They say that eclipses are portents of disaster, because disasters are so common, and misfortune occurs often enough for these forecasts to be right, whereas if they said that eclipses were portents of good fortune they would often be wrong.

They all laughed and clapped, taking it for a deliberate witticism, while he had no idea what he was saying, so great was his foreboding of misfortune and his feeling of powerlessness over the future, however great his thirst for goodness and his capacity for happiness.

They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all.

And remember. Never, in any circumstances, must you despair. To hope and to act is our duty in misfortune. Inactive despair is a forgetting and failure of duty.

To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. To do nothing and to despair is to neglect our duty.

why do we huddle together In a horrid amity of misfortune? why should we be implicated, brought in and brought together?