Quotes About Misfortune

As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happened since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru.

It seems like I'm always an hour late or a dollar short. I'm the kind of guy who will have nothing all my life, and then they'll discover oil while they're digging my grave.

The causes that have made me wretched would probably not have discomposed, or, at least, more than discomposed, another. We are all differently organized; and that I feel acutely is no more my fault (though it is my misfortune) than that another feels not, is his. We did not make ourselves, and if the elements of unhappiness abound more in the nature of one man than another, he is but the more entitled to our pity and our forbearance.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

I never win anything," Dolorous Edd complained. "The gods always smiled on Watt, though. When the wildlings knocked him off the Bridge of Skulls, somehow he landed in a nice depp proof of water. How lucky was that, missing all those rocks?" "Was it a long fall?" Green wanted to know. "Did landing in the pool of water save his life?" "No," said Dolorous Edd. "He was dead already, from that axe in his head. Still, it was pretty lucky, missing the rocks.

He's not a bad guy. He just didn't get any luck and by the time he figured out what was happening to him it was too late to do anything about it.

Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune.

Of all calamities this is the greatest.

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Fortune is with you for an hour, and against you for ten!

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgement to be silent.

It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent.

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

An ill wind that bloweth no man good - The blower of which blast is she.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

Needless fear and panic over disease or misfortune that seldom materialize are simply bad habits. By proper ventilation and illumination of the mind it is possible to cultivate tolerance, poise and real courage.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

His fortune is shipwrecked...