Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity” — Seneca Copy Share Image
“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their footsteps.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Good fortune is as light as a feather, but nobody knows how to pick it up. Misfortune is as heavy as earth,… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
“But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.” — Ondrelique C. Ouellette Copy Share Image
We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I've had the misfortune of being overshadowed by other great athletes. I shouldn't say athletes. Sportsmen. — John Part Copy Share Image
“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much… — Plato Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin;… — Douglas Kirkland Copy Share Image
“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It ought to be considered a great misfortune, not only for individuals, but also for Houses and Congregations, to have everything in… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
When great men permit themselves to be cast down by the continuance of misfortune, they show us that they were only sustained… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.” — Joyce Rachelle Copy Share Image
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand. — Laura San Giacomo Copy Share Image
Better be unborn than unthought, for ignorance is the root of misfortune. — Jessej Joseh Copy Share Image
