Quotes About Misfortune

The mother-in-law had an accident at work. A hot rivet dropped down her drawers and she fell off the oil rig.

If a god said 'Live, and set love aside' I'd say 'no'! Girls are such sweet misfortune.

What can go wrong will go wrong.

I knew a chap who bumped his leg, and it turned black and had to be cut off at the knee.' 'You do seem to mix with the most extraordinary people.

I felt as if I had stepped on the place where the last stair ought to have been, but wasn't.

Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!

You will meet continual misfortune, and be unable to find God, if you insist on deserting your ordinary responsibilities! You cannot work out your past karma3 without worldly experiences.

Religion is not just about flying mountains, talking trees and biological monsters but also about agents whose mental states matter a lot, about connections with predation and death, about links with morality and misfortune.

That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.

Be willing to have it so," he said, because"… acceptance of what has happened is the first step in overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity

La proprietà di cui si abusa è spesso fonte di disgrazia.

Never any young adventurer's misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, or continued longer than mine.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

This is a miserable world, says the Sergeant. Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target --misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark.

One of the strangest peculiarities in the humbler ranks of the English people, is the sort of solemn relish which they have for talking of their own misfortunes. To be the objects of a calamity of any kind, seems to raise them in their own estimations.

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

perception – I was the wrong guy in the wrong place, so it was no surprise that my troubles multiplied.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

If ever was such a misfortunate man," pa says.

Father said a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune Father said.