Quotes About Misfortune

Era obvio que no se iba a quedar, y si de pura suerte se quedaba iba a acabar odiándome. Te digo que los tipos decentes no me van. Les traigo mala suerte.

La fortune, comme l,infortune, est une épreuve, et notre vocation est de la surmonter. (p.315)

Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.

Fortunately I have a son, my beautiful boy. Unfortunately he is a drug addict. Fortunately he is in recovery. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is in recovery again. Unfortunately he relapses. Fortunately he is not dead.

We didn't do any of it on purpose. We're just … not very good at things.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.

Les faibles tirent une satisfaction morose à comparer leur infortune présente avec leur bonheur passé, et tentent ainsi de se prouver à eux-mêmes que leur vie n'a pas été manquée tout entière. (Troisième partie, ch. VI)

Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.

The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes.

But being hit in the face with monkey poo is something that, deep inside, we all believe happens only to other people.

In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

Avarice is disgrace; cowardice is a defect; poverty often disables an intelligent man from arguing his case; a poor man is a stranger in his own town; misfortune and helplessness are calamities; patience is a kind of bravery; to sever attachments with the wicked world is the greatest wealth; piety is the best weapon of defence.

When this world favors somebody, it lends him the attributes, and surpassing merits of others and when it turns its face away from him it snatches away even his own excellences and fame.

Child, when hard luck fall it just keep fallin'.

Anche se tendiamo a credere il contrario, la gioia si condivide meno della sventura.

and magpies coming straight from a meeting with misfortune

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Drake is known to be cursed. He's probably the last remaining curse in sports. Whatever products he wears ultimately that team is jinxed.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

What I find so interesting is, Herbert Hoover in August 1928 said no country in the world was closer to abolishing poverty than the United States. And then, of course, we had the Great Depression.

If you're down, it's curse; if you're up, it's a blessing.