Quotes About Misfortune

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

Foresight is a virtue and averts many a misfortune.

the worls, he would remark to her a few weeks into their acquaintance, is a terrible place and it was our misfortune to have been born into it.

Failure results from bad breaks.

Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.

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

Don't mistake your blessings for curses...

All fates are 'worse than death'.

Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

I do not like to talk about luck.

Over the years, I've had torrid luck with things going wrong.

I hope your bacon burns," Calcifer said, muffled under the pan.

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.

it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

Yedi fersahl?k çizme ve görünmezlik pelerini gibi ÅŸeylerin sahiden var olduÄŸu Ingary ülkesinde üç k?z kardeÅŸin en büyüÄŸü olarak doÄŸmak büyük talihsizliktir. Üçünüz de k?smetinizi aramaya ç?karsan?z, ilk olarak ve en kötü ÅŸekilde senin kaybedeceÄŸini herkes bilir.

At least we're companions in misfortune

Faith has its price. When misfortune strikes the true believer, he assumes he has done something to deserve punishment, but isn't quite certain what. The realist, recognizing that he lives in a Darwinian universe, is simply grateful to have made it to another sunset.

Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how to avert disaster, stands ready to help.

Here lies Joseph II, who was unfortunate in everything that he undertook

Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.

El fresco verano llena Andaluzas soledades; no acercarán amistades la tierna imagen ajena. Visos y dejos de pena el agua me robaría; que la desdicha sonría hasta que el viento la lleve. Y en un molino de nieve levanto una nevería.