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Quotes About Misfortune

Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.
~ Christopher Paolini
I still have horrible luck with girls.
~ Jonathan Bennett
Well, luck is for fools. It's all they have to hope for, poor devils.
~ Stephen King
People choose bad at first then say we are unlucky .
~ Muhammad Saqib
Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.
~ M.F. Moonzajer
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first divorced me and the second won't.
~ Anonymous
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
~ Pliny the Elder
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
~ Franz Schubert
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
~ Epicurus
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
~ Sophocles
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
~ Jane Austen
The death of my husband, coming immediately after the general knowledge of the discoveries with which his name is associated, was felt by the public, and especially by the scientific circles, to be a national misfortune.
~ Marie Curie
He shuffled along with the hang-dog look of the cosmically fucked.
~ Christopher Moore
Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.
~ Christopher Paolini
Misfoutune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the breif gaps between distaters.
~ Christopher Paolini
Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
~ Christopher Paolini
A man rarely knows the day and hour when he will die. I could be killed at any moment, and there's not a blasted thing I can do about it. What will happen will happen, and I won't waste the time I have aboveground worrying. Misfortune always comes to those who wait. The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.
~ Christopher Paolini
I believe it has never been my misfortune to be placed where I lost my presence of mind--unless indeed it has been where thrown in strange company, particularly of ladies.
~ Ulysses S. Grant
Superstition brings bad luck.
~ Umberto Eco
Los dioses ciegan a quienes quieren perder.
~ Umberto Eco
No one believes their misfortunes are attributable to any shortcomings of their own; that is why they must find a culprit.
~ Umberto Eco
Misir's first story was about a man who had been out of work for months and was starving. His five children were starving; his wife was having another baby. It was December and the shops were full of food and toys. On Christmas eve the man got a job. Going home that evening, he was knocked down and killed by a motorcar that didn't stop. 'Helluva thing, Mr Biswas said. 'I like the part about the car not stopping.
~ V.S. Naipaul
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory.
~ V?lm?ki