Quotes About Misfortune

One trouble with trouble is that it usually starts out like fun.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.

An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.

What you misplace today, will misplace you tomorrow

Today was a terrible day. My ex got hit by a bus, and I lost my job as a bus driver

Ultimately, the Buddhist teachings say, misfortune happens less often to those whose motives are pure.

sorrow and joy always walk hand to hand, like sisters. Where is light, there is also shadow, and where the happiness is the greatest, there always lingers a trail of misfortune.

Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

Funny how unlucky events can lead to lucky ones -Emma

Everything in the world was definitely based only in luck. Some people won Lotto, some people walked down the street and air conditioners fell on their heads, and the rest of the world was somewhere in between. Unfortunately, Joey felt closer to the air conditioner guy than the Lotto guy.

The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer them believe or almost demand that the world should end right there, and yet the world pays no heed and carries on regardless and even tugs at the sleeve of the person who suffered the misfortune, I mean, it won't just let them depart this world the way a disgruntled spectator might leave the theatre, unless the unfortunate person kills him or herself.

Non sarò mica cascato su un uomo senza ambizioni? Vorrebbe dire essere ben sfortunati!

Bad luck to your mother.

it was his misfortune that most of the men he knew preferred immaculate linen and their clubs to nakedness and the jungle. It was, of course, difficult to understand, yet it was very evident that they did.

His father's death, and the misfortunes following it, had put a premature end to Ethan's studies; but though they had not gone far enough to be of much practical use they had fed his fancy and made him aware of huge cloudy meanings behind the daily face of things.

It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.

Human nature, gentleman. It is original sin that leads men to misfortune, every time. I am a speculator in the market, gentlemen, and that is part of God's plan. Men only learn through suffering. So I punish human weakness, and God rewards me.

Con l'idee donna Prassede si regolava come dicono che si deve far con gli amici: n'aveva poche; ma a quelle poche era molto affezionata. Tra le poche, ce n'era per disgrazia molte delle storte; e non eran quelle che le fossero men care.

Through it all, they kept pecking at one another, as is too often the case with fellows in misfortune.

Luck can be bad as well as good,

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Russia's future will be a great danger for Europe and a great misfortune for Russia if there is no emancipation of the individual. One more century of present despotism will destroy all the good qualities of the Russian people.