Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come… — Shirley Temple
How would you feel if you had no fear? Feel like that. How would you behave toward other people if you realized their powerlessness to… — Vernon Howard
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow; but the misfortune is that in this particular case, the substance belongs to the shadow,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune. — Raymond Queneau
It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just… — James Madison
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to misfortune, rather than… — Eric Hoffer
A mother experiences more than one death, even though she herself will only die once. She fears for her husband; she fears for her children;… — Saint John Chrysostom
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. — William McFee
Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin. — Anthony Mary Claret
No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. — Dean Koontz
This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude. — Jean de la Bruyere
In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. — Sun Tzu
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human hope. On all… — Arthur Rimbaud
The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the direct, and misfortune into gain. — Sun Tzu
Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune. — Unknown Author
It is the misfortune of contemporary leaders, across the whole spectrum of Australian life, that the community's demand for strong leadership is growing in direct… — Hugh Mackay
I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow. He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book. It's… — Karl Kraus
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of… — Marguerite Yourcenar
The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are ..said to have resilience… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
It is the accumulative weight of our disciplines and our judgments that leads us to either fortune or failure. — Jim Rohn

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