Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to… — Simon Armitage
People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them. — Victor Hugo
The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should… — Erich Maria Remarque
It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it… — SÃ¡ndor MÃ¡rai
Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty. — Ned Vizzini
Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the… — Napoleon Hill
Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity. — Friedrich Nietzsche
They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and… — Miguel de Cervantes
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason. — Mikhail Bulgakov
Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for… — Franz Kafka
And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune. — Boris Pasternak
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. — Henry David Thoreau
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its… — Seneca the Younger
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man… — Bertrand Russell
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. — Michel de Montaigne
Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life. — Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. — Max Ehrmann
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. — Plutarch
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are… — Victor Hugo
It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense,… — Joseph de Maistre
Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path. — Dalai Lama
Nobody is impervious to misfortune. — Ferdinand Marcos

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