Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

A man endures misfortune without complaint. — Franz Schubert
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. — Franz Schubert
No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste… — Junior Seau
Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear. — Frank Sinatra
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life. — Thomas Sowell
Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we… — Eliot Spitzer
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
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes,… — Voltaire
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire
Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. — Voltaire
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
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde
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

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