Quotes About Misfortune

Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped. It may be true, that, to a sensitive observer, there was something exquisitely painful in it.

very painful comedy of errors

She knew the truth of men and women and booze: it rarely ended well for either gender, but it was the women who wound up raped.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

In 2004 I had the fortune - or the misfortune - of playing John Kerry. It was hard because I think the best impressions exaggerate someone's most well-known quality. And exaggerating gravitas is very hard to pull off.

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society that will change the system of inequity, not one person's misfortune.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

I am the same as I was, and do not alter; it is you who have changed. What has happened is this: you took my advice when you were still untouched by misfortune, and repented of your action when things went badly with you; it is because your own resolution is weak that my policy appears to you to be mistaken.

I keep trying to find a way to tell this story, to explain how things went bad

It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again.

The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.

Noakes (bleating) Lord Little has one very similar – Lady Croom I cannot relieve Lord Little's misfortunes by adding to my own. Pray, what is this rustic hovel that presumes to superpose itself on my gazebo?

Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.

i've come to deliver some bad luck -train heartnet

it was just fate in the way fate has of providing the destitute with a greater quota of accidents for which nobody can be blamed.

Third basic law of human stupidity: A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring loss.

it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all, and all that.

Truly, the world was a comedy of errors, and she was the butt of the joke.

To lead a blameless life you must curb your passions , and whatever misfortune may befall you cannot be ascribed by anyone to want of good luck, or attributed to fate; these words are devoid of sense, and all fault will rightly fall on your own head.