Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
...all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. — Moliere Copy Share Image
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring… — Abdul-Qadir Gilani Copy Share Image
Envy is a mistake that just keeps on giving. Obviously we suffer a little when some misfortune befalls us, but envy requires… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Jew and Gentile are two worlds, between you Gentiles and us Jews there lies an unbridgeable gulf...There are two life forces in… — Maurice Samuel Copy Share Image
Even on guitars I've had misfortunes. I never used to clip the strings on my guitar and then one day I accidentally… — Kevin Drumm Copy Share Image
Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater. — Boyle Roche Copy Share Image
“When problems beat upon you like a raging storm, search for the eye. You might not be able to avoid misfortunes, but… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
