Misfortunes Quotes

609 Misfortunes quotes by 400 unique authors

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry… — Pierre Charron
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
Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes. — Sophocles
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
There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying… — Stefan Zweig
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
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

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