Quotes About Misfortune

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck...One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth: their next worst—his death.

I know how to handle misfortune, how to take bad news, I can minimize injustice, lighten up God's absence, or pick the widow's veil that suits your face.

I had the honour of kissing St. Peter's foot at Sanct Pietro, and because I have the misfortune of being so small I, the same old numbskull, Wolfgang Mozart, had to be lifted up.

My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.

Mia had three beautiful sisters and three brothers. One brother died behind the controls of a plane. Another brother committed suicide with a gun. The third brother was convicted of molesting boys and sentenced to prison.

I have wed twice, sir, and been widowed twice. No man survives his nuptial night with me, it appears, and you, sir, have been too kind to deserve such a fate.

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

Love is an attachment to another self. Humor is a form of self-detachment -- a way of looking at one's existence, one's misfortune, or one's discomfort. If you really love, if you really know how to laugh, the result is the same you forget yourself.

Pureté et solitude sont un seul et même malheur.

What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

I've always had just enough sense to spare others, but never enough to save myself from misfortune.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

lucky, he knows now, not to have got in with lowlifes who would lead him to be branded or whipped, or to be one of the small corpses fished out of the river.

There'd always been something wrong with Charlie Hall. Crooked, from the day she was born. Never met a bad decision she wasn't willing to double down on. Had fingers made for picking pockets, a tongue for lying, and a shriveled cherry pit for a heart. If her shadow had been one of those magic ones, she was pretty sure even that thing would have run away.

lt's an honor and a delight to meet you and a tragedy you're here

Hole in the head, hole in the heart, or hole in the pocket. The Hall family curse.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Misfortune is a kind of talisman whose virtue consists in its power to confirm our original nature; in some men it increases their distrust and malignancy, just as it improves the goodness of those who have a kind heart.

As soon as misfortune overtakes you there is always a friend ready to come and announce it, and probe your heart with a dagger while bidding you admire the hilt.

The American who first discovered Columbus made a bad discovery.