Quotes About Unfortunate

Nietzsche held that the strong had a duty towards the less fortunate: 'The man of virtue, too, helps the unfortunate, but not, or almost not, out of pity, but prompted by an urge which is begotten by the excess of power'.

There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?

El temperamento y las circunstancias de este hombre desgraciado habían estado en guerra con su talento.

It always sucks to have to cancel a show because of illness, but unfortunately it sometimes happens.

If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck it is.

Society regards its waste as an unfortunate, but necessary, consequence of its activities-what is left when we have made essential societal goods available. But waste is not the result of what we have made. It is what we have made. Waste plutonium is not an indirect consequence of the nuclear industry; it is a product of that industry.

Evil the drink and ill the resting place. I am not, unfortunately, asleep.

Conversation, my friend. Conversation and again conversation! All the murderers I have ever come across enjoyed talking. In my opinion the strong silent man seldom commits a crime—and if he does it is simple, violent, and perfectly obvious. But our clever subtle murderer—he is so pleased with himself that sooner or later he says something unfortunate and trips himself up.

You often see in Washington those who disagree you described as stupid or evil. It's one of the most unfortunate trends of modern political discourse. Portraying opponents as too dumb to know the truth but smart enough and wanting people to suffer.

She'd just rear-ended a cop car and she said that only the week before she'd been arrested shoplifting tortillas and salsa for a Sunday afternoon football party at her house. 'This is so not good,' she told me. 'Honestly, I have the worst luck.

On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of 'power' over other species.

Sad was the Hour, and luckless was the Day. - Eclogue the Second: Hassan; or the Camel-driver

Abandoned babies are unfortunate unwanted results of a once urgent desire to have an orgasm

The unhappy persistence of both the practice and the lingering effects of racial discrimination ...is an unfortunate reality...and the government is not disqualified from acting in response to it.

There is no happiness for him who oppresses and persecutes; no, there can be no repose for him. For the sighs of the unfortunate cry for vengeance to heaven.

One would think after all the disappointment life offers us unfortunate few we would give up the trifles connected with hope, feeling, belief and optimism in our fellow souls.

When something unfortunate happens, they tend to respond with: "To me? It's happening to me?" They don't believe they are deserving of bad luck. One of the lessons they're learning is that "life" happens to everyone.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

I already have. Not at all that far from where we were, but far enough away. Actually, we're both fortunate and unfortunate.