Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

We are all frail-embodied creatures, who at times suffer through injustice, abuse, illness, pain and misfortune. — Bryant H. McGill
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. — George Washington
Peace is an Excellent Thing, and War is a great Misfortune. But there are Many things More valuable than Peace, and many Things Much worse… — Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Misfortune is the best fortune. Rejection by all is victory. — Valmiki
The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It is-or seems to be-a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way… — Herman Melville
Those who hope to avoid all failure and misfortune are trying to live in a fairyland; wise people realistically accept failures as a part of… — Wilferd Peterson
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian
An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws. — Ambrose Bierce
There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability… — Victor Hugo
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune. — Jean Giraudoux
Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance. — Clarence Darrow
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage. — Aeschylus
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise. — Seneca the Younger
Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems… — Lydia M. Child
To be mistaken is a misfortune to be pitied; but to know the truth and not to conform one's actions to it is a crime… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. — Charles Caleb Colton
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. — Alexander Pope
In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened. — Pierre Corneille
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way… — Jorge Luis Borges
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor… — Lord Acton
Misfortune was my god. — Arthur Rimbaud
... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find… — Henry de Montherlant

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