Quotes About Misfortune

He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was imperfect, and sometimes bad things happened.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

She mock shudders the way you do when you talk about someone's misfortunes that have nothing to do with you, that don't touch you, and never will. I've never hit a woman in my life, but for one minute I want to punch her in the face, give her a taste of the pain she's so casually describing.

Great. Some women cruise Beverly and go home with a pair of Jimmy Choos. I go home with a broken leg.

Why were some people born into blessing and others born into curse?

Tragedy takes all under regard.

Writing has nothing to do with pretty manners, and less to do with sportsmanship or restraint [...] Every writer begins as a subversive, if in nothing more than the antisocial means by which he earns his keep. Finally, every fantasist who cannibalizes himself knows that misfortune is his friend, that grief feeds and sharpens his fancy, that hatred is as sufficient a spur to creation as love (and a world more common) and that without an instinct for lunacy he will come to nothing.

O Miss Bailey!Unfortunate Miss Bailey!

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.

Misfortune draws people to religion and mysticism

The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.

know what helps most in misfortune, Irina? To talk. Nobody can go around in this world all alone. Why do you think I set up the pain clinic? Because shared pain is more bearable. The clinic is useful for the patients but is even more useful to me. We all have demons in the dark recesses of our soul, but if we bring them out into the light, they grow smaller and weaker, they fall silent and eventually leave us in peace." Irina tried to free herself from the tentacle-like

He tenido un día muy desgraciado! -me confesó, sollozando. – ¿No hubo un solo momento bueno en el día, Andrea? – Sí. Una niña se cayó y se partió los dientes. – ¡Pero qué tiene eso de bueno, Andrea, por Dios! – Que no fui yo.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambitions.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Fire tries gold, misfortune men.

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

We undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.