Quotes About Misfortune

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

And that was it. That's how disaster comes, without any fanfare

Anybody possessing analytical knowledge recognizes the fact that the world is full of actions performed by people exclusively to their detriment and without perceptible advantage, although their eyes were open

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.

Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative.

It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.

Luck is blind, they say. It can't see where it's going and keeps running into people…and the people it knocks into we call lucky! Well, to hell with luck if it's like that, I say!

Good god how much I have suffered, but serenely, because I understood that what I endured was nothing, just a caress compared to the world's boundless misfortune.

You cannot understand how much patience I need in order not to lose my patience, so that I can withstand all this misfortune all by myself. Nikos Kazantzakis, from a letter to Galatea Kazantzaki wr. c. June 1922

It's like some real Romeo and Juliet business, except like, if Romeo and Juliet sucked really really bad.

What calm lives they had, those people! No worries about the French Revolution, or the crashing struggle of the Napoleonic wars. Only manners controlling natural passion so far as they could, together with cultured explanations of any mischances .34

To my new friends. May misfortune follow you the rest of your lives, but never catch up.

In keeping with my family's affection for doomed product lines and hexed formats, we purchased a Betamax. The year before, we'd bought a TRS-80 instead of an Apple II, and in due course we'd unbox Mattel's Intellivision, instead of Atari's legendary gizmo. This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.

one might think one's misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality

Problem was, even if you avoided trouble, trouble might reach out and snatch you anyway. Another student might sniff out a weakness and start something, one of the staff dislikes your smile and knocks it off your face. You might stumble into a bramble of bad luck of the sort that got you here in the first place.

But if people received their just portion of misfortune, what had she done to bring her troubles on herself?

The traffic was atrocious and shaming, of that pantheon of traffic encountered when one is late to a wedding or other monumental event of fleeting import. Surely an accident unraveled its miserable inevitabilities ahead and now all was fouled, decelerated, the vehicles syllables in an incantation of misfortune.

Rapp pulled a woebegone face. "My doctor tells me I might never be able to have sex again." Anna tried her best not to smile. "The divorce papers will be on your desk in the morning.

Woe! We are shipwrecked by fate, we are driven before the storm! (Latinus)

I am here through an error—not in this prison, specifically—but in this whole terrible, striped world;

Todavía seguía sin tener claro que Ahriel fuera un ángel lleno de amor y bondad, pero estaba empezando a temer que tenía la mala fortuna de destruir todo lo que tocaba, empezando por la conciencia de Marla y terminando por el mundo entero.

What a dumb accident a family was. Some people got lucky, some not so lucky, and some people got the booby prize.