Dictionary Quote by Abhijit Naskar

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

What is misery? Not realizing your misery and mistaking it for happiness, I think

— Tsukihime

“In the worldly life, what is misery? It is the pain created from wrong suspicions.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

— George Washington

“but without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error, and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention…

— Jane Austen

“Laziness demands misery.”

— Bryant McGill

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of…

— Victor Hugo

“that you would not anticipate misery since the evils you dread as coming upon you may perhaps never reach you at least they are…

— Seneca

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans