Our Misfortunes Quotes
18 quotes by 15 authors
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We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
— Deepak Chopra
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For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
— Madame de Stael
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Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
— Sophocles
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All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.
— Pierre Corneille
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To blame others for our misfortunes is always a victory for the nafs.
— Timothy Winter
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Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
— Stendhal
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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
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We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable…
— Marjane Satrapi
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A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
— Voltaire
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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
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I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing,…
— John Hawley
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If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their…
— Solon
Who Wrote These Our Misfortunes Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 18 Our Misfortunes Quotes as follows: