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Quotes About Unfortunate

Cross your fingers, throw salt over your shoulder, knock on wood...simple folk remedies for unfortunate situations. Silly superstitions...but were they based in truth from a past long forgotten? I didn't know, but it wouldn't hurt to just do it and let the Universe do its job if it was of a mind to. Don't you think?
~ Unknown
It was in an ostensible vein of sarcasm that he had asked me to call him, and that he himself called me, "cher maître." But, as a matter of fact, we each derived a certain satisfaction from the mannerism, being still at the age in which one believes that one gives a thing real existence by giving it a name. Unfortunately
~ Marcel Proust
Foo Kyu' is just a very unfortunate cultural coincidence. Just think about his poor son, 'Foo Kyu Two.'
~ John Zakour
The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
~ Albert Einstein
Most say that life is entirely too short-- but what they don't realize is that for the unfortunate, life is entirely too long.
~ Unknown
Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.
~ Jesse Jackson
Tea should be as bitter as wormwod and as sharp as a two eged swordKit Snicket (a series of unfortunate events)
~ Lemony Snicket
You're just so lucky blood's so hard to get out of the carpet.
~ Lois Greiman, One Hot Mess
Good girls are found in every corner of earth. But unfortunately earth is round.
~ Unknown
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
It's so unreal and beastly.' 'Murder is beastly. Unfortunately it's not unreal.
~ Ngaio Marsh
Middle-class women who entertain the hope or fancy of being something in the world, lose Nature's happiness and miss Society's. They are the most unfortunate creatures I have known.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
Extremely tragic is a good description of you.
~ Osamu Dazai
But I seem to remember you saying that you would float us home tonight if you got your pipes. Which may be unfortunate, as I happen to be wearing my lead drinking shoes." I heard Stanchion chuckle behind me. "These
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Behind her smile I could see o many other things, a catastrophic sadness. I had assisted to the selfless guardians of the unfortunate children who suffered infinite loss, their family, their homes, and nature as they had known and trusted.
~ Patti Smith
The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting
~ Paul Hindemith