Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.” — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that… — Christine de Pizan Copy Share Image
“Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson Copy Share Image
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The books we need are of the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that makes us suffer like the death… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“So much darkness made her uneasy. There was definitely a weight pushing down on the world. Misfortune was always hovering close around… — Leila Aboulela Copy Share Image
“Misfortune of this kind comes to many. Life is well ordered, like a nécessaire, but not all of us can find our… — Viktor Shklovsky Copy Share Image
Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
“But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“Today's youth has not learned 'to see humor in misfortune,' because they have hardly known what misfortune is. They are being urged… — Julián Marías Copy Share Image
“The bad thing about terrible misfortunes, the kind that tear us apart and appear to be unendurable, is that those who suffer… — Javier Marías Copy Share Image
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
“He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alert to her next disaster. Despite being resigned to a life… — G.G. Renee Hill Copy Share Image
