Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

To those who live by the land there must always come times of hardship, of fear and of hunger, even as there are years of… — Kamala Markandaya
To this day, I fondly recall the challenges of building a fire, pitching a tent, climbing a New England mountain, canoeing on a lake. Camp… — Michael Eisner
It is the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you… — Emmet Fox
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril… — Winston Churchill
It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to hope that my children will be in circumstances to receive a good education. Mine was… — Sam Houston
It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to… — Franz Grillparzer
By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a… — Abraham Lincoln
Thus we see that the lot of the duck hunter is not a happy one. He is the child of frustration, the collector of mishap,… — Ted Trueblood
I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators. — Lajos Kossuth
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend,… — Joseph Addison
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure. — Laozi
There is no greater misfortune than greed. — Laozi
Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures. — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Examine the life of the best and most productive men and nations, and ask yourselves whether a tree which is to grow proudly skywards can… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment. — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. — Rocko
CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of… — Ambrose Bierce
Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune. — Tony Snow
QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has… — Ambrose Bierce
If I am a fool then it is no misfortune, for then only one more fool will wander this Earth. Amongst the millions of mentally… — Viktor Schauberger
I am just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of… — Helen Keller
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling… — Lafcadio Hearn
For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences,… — Jefferson Davis
Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced… — Albert Camus

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