Quotes About Unfortunate

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

Most of us are naturally inclined to struggle against the restrictions our friends and family impose upon us, but if we are so unfortunate as to lose a loved one, what a difference then! Then the restriction becomes a sacred trust.

But Rose lifted her champagne flute in a toast. "It is precisely our unfortunate characteristics that make any of us interesting—wouldn't you say, ladies? Those of us, I might add, who are interesting." Maneuvering Kate away from the gaggle, Rose led her through the gardens and down to the river.

It was a terrible horrible no good very bad day

had the misfortune of meeting up a parish employee

Whoever he was, I never heard of his taking the least interest in me or providing in any way for my rearing. But I do not find especial fault with him. He was simply another unfortunate victim of the institution which the Nation unhappily had engrafted upon it at that time.

I hadn't been there ten minutes before there were three turds on the carpet.

Sometimes, there are spots that need to be filled and you just have to be at the right spot at the right time or the wrong spot and the wrong time.

I think that we all stand on the dartboard of life. Roughly 30,000 people a year are going to catch a dart labeled pancreatic cancer, and that's unfortunate. It's not what I would have chosen. But I in no way feel like I deserved it.

Alas, it is the dear-bought privilege of the unfortunate to be tedious!

Faith aside, witchcraft served an eminently useful purpose. The aggravating, the confounding, the humiliating all dissolved in its cauldron. It made sense of the unfortunate and the eerie, the sick child and the rancid butter along with the killer cat. What else, shrugged one husband, could have caused the black and blue marks on his wife's arm?

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Nay rather, vindictive persons live the life of witches; who, as they are mischievous, so end they infortunate.

BORN UNDER A THREEPENNY HALFPENNY PLANET, NEVER TO BE WORTH A GROAT. Said of any person remarkably unsuccessful in his attempts or profession. BOTCH.

oh, you faithless, unfortunate man!...Because of you I spent the whole night yesterday shivering and naked. I lost my nature and replaced it with a new one, I spent several months sitting in a dark closet thinking about one thing, about the storm over Yershalaim, I cried my eyes out, and now, when happiness has befallen us, you drive me away! Well, then I'll go, I'll go, but you should know that you are a cruel man! They've devastated your soul!

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

Poverty is not a disgrace, but it's terribly inconvenient

I am convinced the most unfortunate people are those who would make an art of love. It sours other effort. Of all artists, they are certainly the most wretched.

She sounded as though love were an unfortunate but unavoidable condition.

Reactionary nostalgia for the proprieties of Victorian England is unfortunate, like a whore looking under the bed for her virginity.

She had gambled with marriage, just like most people, but she had gambled unluckily and had lost.

Stop badgering this unfortunate little woman! Is there no mercy left in the world anymore? What has become of compassion and understanding? Where have they all gone to? Where's God? Where's Christ?

I am one of those unfortunate persons to whom the sight of these animals are, at any time an insufferable annoyance.

The business of wretches is wretched even in guarantee giving.