I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves. — Gail Anderson-Dargatz Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison 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
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. — Nguyen Du Copy Share Image
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.” — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early… — William Gibson 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
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the… — Anatoly Karpov Copy Share Image
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there… — Kamala Markandaya Copy Share Image
A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished.… — Isaac Deutscher Copy Share Image
In praise of Thy goodness I must confess that Thou didst try with all Thy means to draw me to Thee. Sometimes… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
At the time of Holy Communion I sometimes picture my soul under the figure of a little child of three or four… — Therese of Lisieux Copy Share Image
The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The word which is best said came nearest to not being spoken at all, for it is cousin to a deed which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Men are themselves the source of their own fortune and misfortune. — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government. — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Misfortune comes to people who live only on the memory of their past grandeur. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
