The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
No hour brings good fortune to one man without bringing misfortune to another. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life. — Madeleine de Scudery Copy Share Image
Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I do not myself believe there is any misfortune. What men call such is merely the shadowside of a good. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's… — Aya Kito Copy Share Image
Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis 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
The great misfortune of the modern English is not at all that they are more boastful than other people (they are not);… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that… — Dorothy Thompson 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 Inglis Anderson Copy Share Image
A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
“I've built many doorways and set out traps so that no one will be able to reach this place. That's what the… — Mizuki Nomura Copy Share Image
If you are blessed with great fortunes. . . you may love your fate. But your fate never guarantees the security of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military… — Deng Xiaoping Copy Share Image
The vital consideration of incentives is almost systematically overlooked in the proposals of agitators for more and bigger government welfare schemes. We… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
The defining characteristic of pessimists is that they tend to believe that bad events will last a long time, will undermine everything… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
It's dangerous to start attributing your fortunes to luck and your misfortunes to fate. — Nancy Pickard Copy Share Image
What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear your own. — Ovid Copy Share Image
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness. — Aesop Copy Share Image
for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
