This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I was a lawyer for 10 years, and several of my clients had the misfortune, through no fault of my own, of… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
What men usually say of misfortunes, that they never come alone, may with equal truth be said of good fortune; nay, of… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past,… — Pierre Laval Copy Share Image
There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world… — Michael Shannon 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
“She considered that there were misfortunes of a much greater magnitude than the loss of a ball experienced every day by some… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
There are many self-help books by Ph.D.s, but I hold a different degree: an I.B.T.I.A.-I've Been Through It All. This degree comes… — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune.… — Junior Seau Copy Share Image
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author… — Susie Orbach Copy Share Image
It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not… — Thomas de Quincey 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
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal… — Anthony Mary Claret Copy Share Image
I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind." --- Edward Gibbon” — Simon Sebag Montefiore Copy Share Image
It is a misfortune of the times that all of us must needs be amateur economists-including, and perhaps especially, the professionals. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
Our own actions are the accidents of fortune that we sometimes place to the credit of luck or misfortune. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny. — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The rice grain suffers under the blow of the pestle. But admire its whiteness once the order is over. So it is… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night… — Georges Bataille 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
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 am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward… — Walter Anderson Copy Share Image
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
