Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune. — Charles R. Swindoll
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. — Anthony Trollope
Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when… — Paul Valery
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it… — Simone Weil
With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he… — Simone Weil
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. — Edith Wharton
My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor,… — Ellen G. White
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. — Oscar Wilde
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia Woolf
So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that… — Michelangelo
I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the… — Lois McMaster Bujold
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly. — Michel de Montaigne
The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God. — Victor Hugo
the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person… — Mark Twain
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being… — Aldous Huxley
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world. — Charles Dickens
In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born… — Diana Wynne Jones
Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… — David Mamet
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. — Albert Camus
Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. — Dorothy Parker
..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. — Edith Wharton
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift… — Cormac McCarthy
A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault. — Abraham Lincoln

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