The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus Copy Share Image
Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
“No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.” — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
I have yet to hear an instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots of instances where… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“15 "General ideas and great conceit are always a fair way to bring about terrible misfortune.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
“...the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.” — W Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
“If some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It has been my misfortune to be engaged in more battles than any other general on the other side of the Atlantic;… — Ulysses S Grant Copy Share Image
...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Misfortune and experience are lost upon mankind, when they produce neither reflection nor reformation. Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him;… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck. — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
We have all been beaten! Each one has to bear his misfortune! Resign yourself! — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“As a child, I cried because I had no toy until I met a child who had no bread.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“It is the grand misfortune of my life that nobody will let me alone.” — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Favor and disgrace make one fearful The greatest misfortune is the self” — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
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