The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
People who make a living off other people's fortunes or misfortunes are parasites. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Always you have been told that work is a curse and labor a misfortune. But I say to you that when you… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others. — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I don't mean to presume to dictate to you in the slightest degree but why did you leave your father's house? MTo… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It is just as often a great misfortune to be the child of the rich as it is to be the child… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes.… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The twisty nature of psychic attack - are you being attacked, or did you bring this attack on yourself? - speaks to… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
... a Christian is quite certain to fall into the same sins which he condemns in another with merciless and inhuman severity,… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities,… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
The common excuse for those bringing misfortune on others is that they desire their good. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone” — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“My life has been filled with terrible misfortunes — most of which never happened. Mark Twain” — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Surprises are like misfortunes or herrings - they rarely come single. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
