Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.” — Paul Scott Copy Share Image
“When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth —Persian Proverb” — Jennifer Fallon Copy Share Image
“We are about to live the American Dream, which is, of course, to benefit from someone else’s misfortune.” — John Green Copy Share Image
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to… — French Proverb Copy Share Image
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one… — Henry de Montherlant Copy Share Image
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods,… — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“I do not accept evil. Man is perfect. The soul does not fall. Progress exists. . . . Up till now, misfortune… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
“There is no disaster greater than not being content; There is no misfortune greater than being covetous.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
The poorest person in the world is not the one without a single coin in his hand, but the one without GOD… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“You weep thinking I’m off to a better place.. I weep thinking I’ve left you at a place better than the one… — Louis Yako Copy Share Image
“The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
If happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, then we must be happy for all that comes into our life, for… — Meera Lester Copy Share Image
1. Nothing is as easy as it looks. 2. Everything takes longer then you think. 3. If there is a possibility of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
“Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse… — Grazia Deledda Copy Share Image
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image