Calamity Quote by Boyle Roche

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

— Bias of Priene

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

— Honore de Balzac

Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

— Voltaire

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

— Ambrose Bierce

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

— Dave Pelzer

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

— Mark Twain

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

— Mikhail Bulgakov

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

— Grover Cleveland

“the worst misfortune isn’t only misfortune”

— Marilynne Robinson

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

— Jaggi Vasudev

For there is hardly a state or nation in existence which has not once had the misfortune, even if it was in the right…

— Adolf Hitler