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Misfortunes Quotes by Victor Hugo
- Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind;…
- It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
- As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we…
- 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…
- The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.
- There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble…
- Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be…
- My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo
- People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
- Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are…
- Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
More Misfortunes Quotes
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. — Aristotle
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but… — Marcus Aurelius
- A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. — Jane Austen
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. — Francis Bacon
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of… — Russell Baker
- We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are. — Honore de Balzac
- A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes. — Joseph Addison
- The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. — A. C. Benson
- Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. — Ambrose Bierce