Abstraction Quote by Albert Camus

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your…

— Clarence Thomas

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian,…

— Honore de Balzac

There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Nothing so tires a person as having to struggle, not with himself, but with an abstraction.

— Jose Saramago

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Everything happens for a reason. The daily tragedies and misfortunes are all meaningful events, leading toward an ideal conclusion. With that in mind, there…

— Melchor Lim

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important…

— Cinda Williams Chima

Possibly. Basically,everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went…

— Paulo Coelho

It seems entirely possible to me that horrible things can be going on without us becoming horrible people.

— Jonathan Safran Foer