Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six… — Adolf Hitler
It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be… — James F. Cooper
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world. — Stefan Zweig
In culture after culture, people believe that the soul lives on after death, that rituals can change the physical world and divine the truth, and… — Steven Pinker
Misfortune is the test of a person's merit. — Seneca the Younger
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of… — Boethius
Even convicts, with whom I have spent some time, are not won over in any other way. Whenever I happened to speak sharply to them,… — Vincent de Paul
[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we… — Vincent de Paul
You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must… — Vincent de Paul
[P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future. — Vincent de Paul
As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we… — Victor Hugo
They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls. Was it fate?Misfortune?Is that what glued them down like that?Of course not.Let's… — Markus Zusak
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but… — Robert Greene
Misfortune occurs or can occur to anyone, of any sort of character. The eudaimonic has more resources to avoid it (being in autonomous control of… — Kenny Smith
We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant H. McGill
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory. — Valmiki
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of… — Wilferd Peterson
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow

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