Misfortune Quotes

498 Misfortune quotes by 347 unique authors

There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more. — Laozi
The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it. It… — Sri Chinmoy
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others — Edmund Burke
I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people's standards.… — Sophia Loren
...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. — Martin Luther
[Every disappointment or misfortune can become a blessing in disguise, for which we should be grateful. But only if the hidden blessing is anticipated, expected… — Saint Basil
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled! [People who get upset and worried at the first sign of misfortune are only… — Daniel Defoe
A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault. — Walter Bagehot
In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable… — Thomas De Witt Talmage
Life has, indeed, many ills, but the mind that views every object in its most cheering aspect, and every doubtful dispensation as replete with latent… — Lydia Sigourney
The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. — Herodotus
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks… — Clay Shirky
I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only… — Alfred Nobel
It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions. — Kirby Larson
The memory of man is as old as misfortune — Lawrence Durrell
The provision of health care facilities must be accepted as a social responsibility. It is not that an individual who has the misfortune to be… — Unknown Author
I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation,… — Almeida Garrett
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. — George Washington
Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or… — Napoleon Hill
Joy, anger, sorrow, happiness, find no place in that man's breast; for to him all creation is ONE. And all things being thus united in… — Zhuangzi
Excitement and depression, fortune and misfortune, pleasure and pain are storms in a tiny private, shell-bound realm - which we take to be the whole… — Eknath Easwaran
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
A source of permanent, accessible pleasure, our genitals exist. The god who created our misfortune, who made us short-lived, vain and cruel, has also provided… — Michel Houellebecq
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the… — Jean Paul
It doesn't require much for misfortune to strike in the King's Gambit - one incautious move, and Black can be on the edge of the… — Anatoly Karpov

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