“one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality” — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves. — Nguyen Du Copy Share Image
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason. — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune. — Laozi Copy Share Image
Who shall ever tell how much an unmerited disfavor crushes a shy person? Who can ever depict the misfortunes of timidity? — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can. — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper. — Doseone Copy Share Image
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel… — John Bosco Copy Share Image
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which will never happen. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
An ideology can provide a satisfying narrative that explains chaotic events and collective misfortunes in a way that flatters the virtue and… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In the Bible, fate was often presented as the handmaiden of morality: sin was succeeded by misfortune, righteousness by prosperity, with reward… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally.… — Edna Buchanan Copy Share Image
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an… — Sanai Copy Share Image
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about… — Zelig Pliskin Copy Share Image
The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel,… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou… — Héloïse Copy Share Image
Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
![“[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected and searched for will it be found and recognised as such and the most made of it. For example...] Many a man curses the rain that falls…” quote by Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/saint-basil-4281_abundance_every-disappointment-or-misfortune-can-b_143853.jpg)
![“You see, it's been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn't we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion [Islam] too would have been more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be…” quote by Adolf Hitler](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb3/adolf-hitler-253_christianity_you-see-it-s-been-our-misfortune-to-have_1479216.jpg)
![“[It is hard to know what is good luck and what isn't and therefore whether we should be happy or sad about it. Only time will tell. For example...] The Talmud relates a story about two people who wanted to travel by boat. One broke his foot and was unable to make the trip, while his friend got on…” quote by Zelig Pliskin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/68d/zelig-pliskin-22951_anticipation_it-is-hard-to-know-what-is-good-luck-and_34545.jpg)
![“[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine ... And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of that ... [as in the narrative of thy misfortunes ] thou hast not disdained to set forth sundry reasons by which I…” quote by Héloïse](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/651/heloise-27050_bonds_i-f-the-name-of-wife-appears-more-sacred_2298825.jpg)
