What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children's do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to… — Sylvia Pankhurst Copy Share Image
You see misery, you see misfortune, you see pain, you see suffering. It's all part of the fatalistic way of looking at… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in… — Adolf Hitler 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
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty,… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another,… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
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
... 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
contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it. — Mignon G. Eberhart Copy Share Image
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Sometimes I joke that I'm an Elizabethan who's had the misfortune to be alive during the reign of the wrong Elizabeth. — George Fetherling Copy Share Image
We fell silent and all joking ceased. We gazed mutely into each other's eyes and an intense longing for the fullest avowal… — Frederic Chopin Copy Share Image
It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account… — Washington Allston Copy Share Image
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
I will live this day as if it is my last. …I will waste not a moment mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, Yesterday’s defeats,… — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties. — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker 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
