Quotes About Misfortune

All right then, I'll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there's a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.

As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune. "…What's real is something that not even the strength of the Goddess can change. The only one who can change it is me. If I don't change my destiny, if I don't cut through the obstacles in my path, then no matter where I go, I'll always be standing in the same place, doing the same thing over and over again, for the rest of my life.

Fericirea este suma tuturor nenorocirilor de care nu am avut parte.

Oh poor Octave, no luck at all, as usual, said Madame Rocher, he is still with his regiment, still only a captain. Of course, if it hadn't been for this wretched war, he would be at least a colonel by now.

Oh what a pity it happens to be Davey's day for getting drunk. I long to tell him, he will be so much interested.

And so does pity lead straight to disaster.

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Mr.

A Canadian journalist named Pinky Fulham was killed when a soft drinks vending machine overturned, crushing him.

It was like she was cheated. Only nobody had cheated her. So there was nobody to take it out on. However, just the same she had that feeling. Cheated.

The question always is, what does misfortune really tell us?

Infirmity and misery do not of necessity imply guilt.

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.

Gabriel's malignant star was assuredly setting fast.

but it is without a doubt a misfortune for a man who has a living to get, to be born of a truly noble nature. A high soul will bring a man to the workhouse... A Pair of Blue Eyes

Whilst I would have given worlds to touch your hand, you have let a rake come in without right or ceremony and—kiss you! Heaven's mercy—kiss you!

The boy's face expressed the whole tale of their situation. On that little shape had converged all the inauspiciousness and shadow which had darkened the first union of Jude, and all the accidents, mistakes, fears, errors of the last. He was their nodal point, their focus, their expression in a single term. For the rashness of those parents he had groaned, for their ill assortment he had quaked, and for the misfortunes of these he had died.

Kad se dobro zamišljeni plan nesretno ostvari, onaj koga zoveš malokad dolazi, i ?ovjek koji bi se mogao voljeti rijetko nai?e u vrijeme kad se ljubav traži.

However, it is so sometimes, and nothing happens that we expect, he added, with the repose of a man whom misfortune had inured rather than subdued.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

You're his friend, Jack. Why can't you leave him alone? 'Because it's his bad luck to be the best. Because he doesn't think like other people. Somehow he never got in a rut.

The world is ride with evil and misfortune, but it also full of good people determined to right wrongs. I would not sink into sadness. I would celebrate those who refuse to give up.