Misfortunes should always be expected.

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most…

— Samuel Johnson

Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures…

— Samuel Johnson

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where…

— Samuel Johnson

[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated,…

— Saint Basil

I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is…

— Samuel Johnson

Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.

— Samuel Johnson

[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