Quotes About Misfortune

Let us repudiate the abominable suggestion that we should renounce friendship and love in order to banish misfortune. On the contrary, let us mingle our souls just as we weave our bodies together. May the beloved be the land of our shattered roots.

It does not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdom is needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, but encourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of his soul, refreshed by water.

I have sometimes thought that I have been burdened with a pack of ten misfortunes, any one of which if borne by my neighbor would be enough to make a murderer out of him.

Such it is for those in the grips of misfortune: declarations of support and sympathy, rather than providing comfort, may merely increase the victim's pain.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Whenever you suffer misfortune or illness, think "This repays my karmic debts from former lifetimes and purifies my negative karma!" No matter what happiness you have, regard it as the kindness of the Three Jewels and arouse the strong yearning of devoted gratitude! When you meet with enmity and hatred, think "This is a good friend helping me to cultivate patience!" Think, "This helper for patience is a messenger sent by the victorious ones!" (p. 105)

As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.

Trouble seems to follow me around, waiting to club me with a tire iron.

On notera par amusement le privilège commun qui associe fortuitement ces trois termes : la mélancolie , après tout, ne métamorphose-t-elle pas le corps en théâtre sur lequel l'âme joue ses drames universels dans une terrible démocratie du malheur, sans privilège de caste ni de rang ?

I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.

When luck ain't with you, it's against you.

I am the king of good ideas gone terribly wrong.

In our plays, if the Cthaeh's tree is shown in the distance in the backdrop, you know the story is going to be the worst kind of tragedy. It's put there so the audience knows what to expect. So they know everything will go terribly wrong in the end.

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.

What a tribute this is to art; what a misfortune this is for history. (In reference to Shakespeare's 'Richard III')

It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.

Que tanto gusto había en quejarse, un filósofo decía, que, a trueco de quejarse, habían las desdichas de buscarse.

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

May the creditor seize all he owns, and strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.

But you should not gloat in that day, your brotherís day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.