Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite… — Naomi Klein
There is no greater sin than desire, No greater curse than discontent, No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself. Therefore he who knows that… — Laozi
O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their… — Ann Radcliffe
We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them;… — William Hazlitt
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her. — John Dryden
It is a comfort to the miserable to have comrades in misfortune, but it is a poor comfort after all. — Christopher Marlowe
A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to… — Clark Moustakas
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair... — Martin Seligman
Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the… — Martin Seligman
Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have… — Daniel Dennett
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed… — Rachel Carson
It is a great misfortune not to possess sufficient wit to speak well, nor sufficient judgment to keep silent. — Jean de la Bruyere
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road… — Luther Burbank
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. — Silent lotus
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The 'control of nature' is a phrase conceived in arrogance, . . . when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man… — Rachel Carson
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte
He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a part… — Wilferd Peterson
Even the word depression itself was the terminological product of an effort to soften the connotation of deep trouble. In the last century, the term… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.... — Niccolo Machiavelli
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues. — Honore de Balzac
Everybody has their days of misfortune. — Louisa May Alcott

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