Misfortunes Quotes · Page 18

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

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

— Aristotle

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse…

— J. K. Bharavi

What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!? Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a…

— Maria Edgeworth

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay,…

— Jorge Luis Borges

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the…

— Catullus

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been…

— Grover Cleveland

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge.

— Aristotle

Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once…

— Edgar Allan Poe

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not…

— Blaise Pascal

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

— Jules Verne

There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because…

— Jodi Picoult

The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have…

— Philippa Gregory

I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like…

— Amandla Stenberg

We must, therefore, be confident that the general measures we have adopted will produce the results we expect. most important in this…

— Carl von Clausewitz

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order…

— Joseph Addison

“Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone.”

— Charles Dickens

Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth…

— Anna Cora Mowatt

Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach.

— Benjamin Franklin

What avails it that indulgent Heaven From mortal eyes has wrapt the woes to come, If we, ingenious to torment ourselves, Grow…

— John Armstrong

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has…

— Epictetus

At times like the present, when the evils of unsound finance threaten us, the speculator may anticipate a harvest gathered from the…

— Grover Cleveland

Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

— Anonymous

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

— Gilbert Gottfried