Behinds Quote by Brian Aldiss

“As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable…

— Guy Finley

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

Misfortunes seldom come singly

— Hashem Shatila

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

— Martin Seligman

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance…

— Clay Shirky

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can’t help it.”

— Joseph Frank

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

— Honore de Balzac

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

— Dorothy Parker

“For the first time in his life he knew the bitterest sort of misfortune, misfortune beyond remedy, misfortune his own fault.”

— Leo Tolstoy