Quotes About Misfortune

For the first time in our lives, we were living on the backs of others, but that was how you got ahead in the city. When Jim said it made him feel like a vulture, I told him that scavengers got a bum rap. "Vultures don't kill animals, they live off the dead," I said. "And that's what we're doing. We're not bringing misfortune on these people, we're just taking advantage of it.

Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

they say bad things come in threes, so we got our quota for a while ain't we.

Back water done rose at Sumner," sings Patton, "drove poor Charlie down, down the line.

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

Veo que no has encontrado a tu tío. Qué pena. Si fueras un poco menos astuto, quizá tendrías más suerte.

Nadja, who is always hunting for a man, but always the wrong one, is trying to get together with Ebbe's brother Karsten, who she would fit like a ring in his nose.

Even the best-conducted women [...] have an aversion for the impotent," [...] so one should conceal one's wounds and hide the crippling deficiencies of life – poverty, misfortune, sickness, ill-success. People begin by being touched and moved to tenderness by their friends' distress; presently this changes to pity, which has something humiliating about it; then to a masterful giving of advice; and then to scorn.

The British were fatalistic; it was the origin of their cynicism, but it also made them good sharers of misfortune. 'Oh, well, mustn't grumble!

Accumulating love brings luck, accumulating hatred brings calamity. Anyone who fails to recognize problems leaves the door open for tragedies to rush in.

They both looked at me in a way that was fast becoming familiar: two parts bafflement to one part awe at my talent for making a bad situation worse.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

It is not nor it cannot come to good.

A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life; Whole misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife.

Perdonados serán unos, castigados otros; pues jamás hubo tan lamentable historia como la de Julieta y su Romeo.

I am fortunes fool.

William Shakespeare

One woe doth tread upon another's heel. So fast they follow.

O, I am fortune's fool!

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away… people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise.