Misfortune Quotes
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The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
— Austin O'Malley
No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly
— Michel De Montaigne
The misfortune of man is that he was once a child.
— Frantz Fanon
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
— Alexandre Dumas
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
— Scott Adams
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
— Clarence Darrow
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
— Henry Ward Beecher
It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
— Victor Hugo
Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.
— Jindrich Styrsky
At least we're companions in misfortune
— Dodie Smith
Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.
— Tatjana Soli
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General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Only in a popular war against France ... do I see a misfortune.
— Ferdinand Lassalle
What dreadful misfortune awaited them among the savage hordes intoxicated with blood?
— Henryk Sienkiewicz
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
— Jules Verne
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
— William McFee
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
— Jonathan Swift
All daring and courage, I said, All iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
— Tom Spanbauer
Instead of worrying over unforeseen misfortune, set out with all your soul to rejoice in the unforeseen blessings of all your coming days.
— Orison Swett Marden
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
— Stefan Zweig
Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
— Martin Luther
Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.
— Mason Cooley
Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.
— Silent Lotus
Man is neither angel nor beast, and the misfortune is that he who wishes to be an angel becomes a beast' (Blaise Pascal).
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
It's at moment of misfortune that we remember we're all exiles.
— Jean-Claude Izzo
... misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.
— Louisa May Alcott
I'm as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.
— Nenia Campbell
An undaunted author, is the one who will succeed. There is no misfortune, that can dim their optimism.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
Good luck in most cases comes through the misfortune of others.
— Jackie Stewart
If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.
— Henry David Thoreau
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
— Immanuel Kant
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
— Dorothy Parker
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!
— Grant Allen
... misfortune and creativity go together.
— Cirilo F. Bautista
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.
— Christopher Marlowe
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.
— Pierre Choderlos De Laclos
And two more tiresome examples of blameless lives lived well I have rarely had the misfortune to examine.
— Andrea K. Host
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
— Edith Wharton
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
— Isabel Allende
If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.
— George Sand
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
— Publilius Syrus
We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.
— Winston Churchill
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.
— Honore De Balzac
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good.
— George MacDonald
Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.
— Diana Gabaldon
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The authors of all our misfortune.
— Jefferson Davis
May misfortune follow us for the rest of our lives, but never catch up-Nicolas Fox, The Heist
— Janet Evanovich
Small minds are usually overcome by misfortune and despair but great minds will try and rise above them each time!
— Timothy Pina
If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open.
— J.G. Bennett
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.
— Baltasar Gracian
Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
— Charles Simmons
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
— Lord Chesterfield
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The careless arrows of misfortune were tangents glancing off the pure circle of her dreams.
— Sonja Yoerg
It never rains but it pours
— L.M. Montgomery
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.
— Janette Rallison
Forgive everyone. Forgive every misery and misfortune with love.
— Debasish Mridha
Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!
— Marie Anne De Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand
Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.
— Zhuangzi
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent.
— Jean De La Bruyere
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
— Seneca The Younger
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love.
— Albert Camus
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality.
— Susanna Kaysen
It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely.
— Jane Austen
Milton Friedman's misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
What man ever blamed himself for his misfortune?
— William Graham Sumner
had the misfortune of meeting up a parish employee
— Faith Hunter
the worst misfortune isn't only misfortune
— Marilynne Robinson