Quotes About Misfortune

A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

There is no accident so disastrous that a clever man cannot derive some profit from it nor any so fortunate that a fool cannot turn it to his disadvantage.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

For an instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desired each others destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

For that instant, at least, they seemed one and the same, as though all anguish exists in the same deep well, no matter what loss or misfortune leads us to it. We might be at odds, hate each other, and desire each other's destruction, but in our despair, we are lost in the same darkness, breathing the same air as we choke on our grief.

Rebecca, death don't take pot shots, then say, 'Oh, shit, I missed and got the wrong fella!

Debt is a terrible, terrible thing. Somehow they've got us all primed to accept it. They've taught us it's part of the American dream or some such nonsense. But it keeps you in chains. The deeper in you get, the more money they make off your misfortune, and the deeper in you get.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

One misfortune may be chance; two might be divine punishment. Three is a plan.

Too much luck is bad luck

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.

A pack of cards is the devil's prayer-book.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!

nights on the street. It seems that not only the man who becomes old is punished for his involuntary misfortune, but likewise the man who is struck by disease or accident.

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck.

No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or what misery may be yours in place of all this slendor.

Remember that fortune and misfortune should be left to heaven and natural law. They are not to be bough by prayer or any cunning device to be thought of by any man or self-styled saint. p848

Ladies born in Year of Horse, with the fire sign, are thought to be . . . unlucky.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.