Misfortunes Quotes

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

— Menander

Misfortunes never come singly.

— Anne Frank

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

— Jean Giraudoux

“Misfortunes shared creates happiness.”

— victor hugo

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

— Max Stirner

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

— Publilius Syrus

Misfortunes should always be expected.

— Samuel Johnson

Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.

— Sophocles

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.

— William McFee

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

— Josh Billings

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

— Christopher Morley

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.

— Madeleine de Scudery

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

— Margaret Mitchell

“No man can say whether you are happy or not until you die, for no man knows misfortunes may overtake you or…

— James Baldwin

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs…

— Charles Caleb Colton

It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all.

— Christopher Marlowe

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes…

— Aristophanes

The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I…

— Anonymous

The diamond of character is revealed by the concussion of misfortune, as the splendor of the precious jewel of the mine is…

— Francis Alexander Durivage

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the…

— Ernest Hemingway

Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the…

— Napoleon Hill

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from…

— Deanna Raybourn

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone…

— Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden…

— Michelangelo

Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are…

— Georges Bernanos

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes…

— Thomas Francis Meagher

When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think…

— W. Somerset Maugham

The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the…

— Toh Chin Chye

There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance or to…

— Sun Tzu

I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should,…

— Alfred Nobel

It is indeed a misfortune for a woman to be without beauty, as with men the eye is the chief arbiter of…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled…

— Aristotle

When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in…

— Tim Wise