Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

There are no moments more painful for a parent than those in which you contemplate your child's perfect innocence of some imminent pain, misfortune, or… — Michael Chabon
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible. — Alexandre Dumas
I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune.… — Louisa May Alcott
Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being,… — Leo Tolstoy
Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded… — Christopher Paolini
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and… — Haruki Murakami
Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do… — Jane Austen
Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who… — Albert Camus
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. — Aristotle
In great misfortunes, people want to be alone. They have a right to be. And the misfortunes that occur within one are the greatest. Surely… — Willa Cather
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own… — Georges Bataille
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence. — Voltaire
The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and… — Simone de Beauvoir
When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune… — Lisa See
These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and… — Daniel Defoe
Those who are happy and successful themselves are too apt to make light of the misfortunes of others. — Elizabeth Gaskell
What ever the course of our lives, we should recieve them as the highest gift from the hand of God, in which equally reposed the… — Galileo Galilei
A habit of finding pleasure in thought rather than action is a safeguard against unwisdom and excessive love of power, a means of preserving serenity… — Bertrand Russell
What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state… — Alexandre Dumas
None of us makes it through this life without problems and challenges—and sometimes tragedies and misfortunes. After all, in large part we are here to… — Thomas S. Monson
Once there was a gypsy queen who wore on her wrist a chain of six lucky charms - a golden crown, a silver horse, a… — Kate Forsyth
They say: sufferings are misfortunes," said Pierre. 'But if at once this minute, I was asked, would I remain what I was before I was… — Leo Tolstoy
What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a… — Deanna Raybourn
I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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