Quotes About Misfortune

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It is his own thoughts, his own actions, that rob him of it.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life

It made sense, Amanda decided. People thrived on the misfortunes of others: her mother was the perfect example of that. Can't see a car accident, she thought, for wanting to climb inside and join in.

Do you know, by the way, that German is the only language in the world that has a word for 'pleasure derived from the misfortune of others'? Schadenfreude.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

A disruptor finds opportunity and profit from his misfortunes.

If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

Sad was the Hour, and luckless was the Day. - Eclogue the Second: Hassan; or the Camel-driver

the history of any family is a history of death and misfortune.

Love had turned out the most painful of all his disillusionments. Further, the misfortunes of his wedded life had intensified that morbid self-protectiveness, that propensity at all costs to avoid trouble, which was a major defect of his character.

It's got the right combination of content, what Mackley calls the "Three S's": sex, stupidity, and schadenfreude.

Stercus accidit.

Kelly's mother was a bitch and her father was run over by the motor home when he chased a squirrel into the street, but I figured that was more information than my mother needed to know.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Misfortune was my god.

What miracle is God fashioning out of this misfortune?