No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make…

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the…

— Luther Burbank

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

Being single was never my misfortune. It's my choice and my decision.

— Jomari Consuelo

When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut,…

— Lisa See

“Modern man’s misfortune lies not in having to live a mediocre life, but in believing that he could live one that is not mediocre.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

— Voltaire

[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only…

— Zelig Pliskin

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can…

— James F. Cooper

All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive…

— Honore de Balzac

“When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth     —Persian Proverb”

— Jennifer Fallon

Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to…

— Albert Camus

“The swathe of misfortune is a twisted repellent cloth, one we turn our nose at, as we mutter, no thanks. But is hardship ever…

— Nancy-Gail Burns

... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but…

— Henry de Montherlant

“…young people without arms and legs. They’re the ones who had the fortune or perhaps the misfortune to survive.”

— Zlata Filipović