Quotes About Misfortune

You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

We were shooting an outdoor scene where I run to get into a car. As I did so, someone closed the door on my leg. With severe pain, I continued to shoot after applying a pain relief cream. But as luck could have it, someone slammed the door on the same leg, yet again, and at the same spot! Next, I come to know, I have a fracture!

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

As a child, I've always been in trouble with men and the police have always had to get involved, through no fault of my own.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Good fortune then! To make me blest or cursed'st among men.

Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.

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.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.