Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of…

“Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in…

— Diana Gabaldon

The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict…

— Washington Allston

“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

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

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

[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

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

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right…

— Adolf Hitler

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

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

You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at life.

— Ravi Zacharias

My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy…

— Sylvia Pankhurst

What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has…

— Jean Paul