Quotes About Misfortune

May he have an accident shaped like an umbrella.

Saint Claire, the patron saint of the kick-me sign.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

Wherever I went, I was on the wrong end of the stampede.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.

no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

But the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

the optimist, unlike the pessimist, believes that life has meaning, that there is something to learn from every adversity, and even that the absurdity of such an excess of misfortune will likely seem at least somewhat amusing after enough time has passed. That is why, years after they have lost everything, optimists are frequently richer and happier than ever, while pessimists often had nothing to lose in the first place.

Favor and disgrace make one fearful The greatest misfortune is the self

Every dark cloud has a silver lining—conversely, the silver lining frames a dark cloud. Or as chapter 58 of Tao Te Ching expresses it: Misfortune is what fortune depends upon Fortune is where misfortune hides beneath Yin contains yang; yang contains yin. Every failure harbors the hidden seed of future success; every triumph contains the covert cause of future defeat. Thus, Sai Ong's father isn't mortified by bad news—but neither is he overelated

we've had some luck, both good and bad.

then came an evil wind, that blew the seeds of misfortune into my garden.

There's no enjoyment to losing money.

Behn's bifurcated tales of fortune and misfortune, The Forc'd Marriage and Oroonoko are, in turn, comedic and tragic. They are twin narratives of the development of modern patriarchy.

The daemonhost surged through the air at me, teeth bared, arms spread, incandescent with light, baying my name. It was like facing the attack run of a supersonic warcraft firing all guns. I know so. It is my misfortune to have experienced that too.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Over the centuries people have blamed everything from eating a green chestnut to being cursed by a gypsy. Others have cited being frightened by a burglar, consuming improper combinations of food, and thinking and speaking impure thoughts as direct causes of deafness.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

In a life filled with great good fortune of health, of creativity, of friends, living in safety and privilege with the loving partner. There was just one bit of misfortune in his life and that was that Peter Morrow seemed to have no idea how very fortunate he was.

There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.