I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes… — Thomas Francis Meagher Copy Share Image
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably,… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The simple circumstantial narrative (did such a narrative exist) of the ruin of a single town, of the misfortunes of a single… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
We ought, in humanity, no more to despise a man for the misfortunes of the mind than for those of the body,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
The only thought in the world that is worth anything is free thought. To free thought we owe all past progress and… — Richard Savage Copy Share Image
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone… — Robert Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Copy Share Image
See me, how calm I am. Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is nothing more difficult than tactical maneuvering. The difficult consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain.… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of… — Max Ehrmann Copy Share Image
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is the fate of most men who mingle with the world, and attain even the prime of life, to make many… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on… — Michael Eisner Copy Share Image
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Jewish nation dares to display an irreconcilable hatred toward all nations, and revolts against all masters; always superstitious, always greedy for… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
