Quotes About Misfortune

George pulled my hand away and inspected the wound. He frowned. "Sarah, honey, what happened?" I cleared my throat. "I fell on some barecue prongs.

As ill-luck would have it.

Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.

Many lives are disrupted by tragic accidents, and even the most fortunate are subjected to stresses of various kinds. Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a very rare gift. Those who possess it are called "survivors," and are said to have "resilience," or "courage.

Yet such blows do not necessarily diminish happiness. It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

Misfortune comes from all successful attempts at education.

As to everyone on whom I placed my hand, no misfortune ever befell him, because my heart was sealed and my counsel excellent. But as to any fool, any wretch, who stands up in opposition. I shall give according as he gives. "O woe," will be said of one who is accused by me, his will take water like a boat. For I am a champion without peer! THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI

He will find no favor on the day of woe.

And there would be more partings, more losses, more wounds, over and over, again and again. He could change his destiny a hundred times, and each time another loss or separation would be waiting for him on the other side. As long as there is happiness, there will be sadness. As long as there is fortune, there will be misfortune.

Había una vez un tal Jiang Zhiya, que atravesaba una racha de mala suerte. Si estaba vendiendo harina, soplaba un vendaval; si lo que vendía era carbón, el invierno venía suave; si alzaba la cabeza para lanzar sus lamentos al cielo, le caía en plena boca una cagada de pájaro.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

if I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them. Alas, I lack the qualifications. So when there was still world and time enough I fretted. I nagged. I corrected. I got everything wrong.

Poverty is never a choice. And if it's a choice, then people choose it unknowingly.

What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.

Ill-fortune carries with it a stench and leaves a wide berth around its victims,

hardship had been part of history for so long it had become a condition of life. There was no expectation things could, or would, be otherwise. You got on with it, and through faith, family and character accommodated as best you could whatever suffering and misfortune was yours.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,And none could be unhappy but the great.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.

Modern man's misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live a life that is not mediocre.

The genius who bemoans and laments himself forgets that he has spared himself the misfortune of mediocrity.

Let us lament less the obscenity of today's novelist than his misfortune. When man becomes insignificant, copulation and defecation become important actions.