Unfortunate Quotes
446 Unfortunate quotes by 371 unique authors
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The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.
— Albert Einstein
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Doubtless the lunatic asylums of the world are filled with unfortunate women who have failed to see my charms.
— Cassandra Clare
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I can trust you, Jessie, but you're clearly not well enough to go. Which is unfortunate, since Aloysius always had a weakness for a pretty…
— Cassandra Clare
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Dumbledore paused, and although his voice remained light and calm, and he gave no obvious sign of anger, Harry felt a kind of chill emanating…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground – I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and…
— Jane Austen
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It felt as if maybe the curse had lifted, the tide had shifted, but then the breeze picked up and a skeet took a very…
— Ally Carter
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Isaac out of surgery. It went well. He's officially NEC. NEC meant "no evidence of cancer." A second text came a few seconds later. I…
— John Green
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I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings
— Jerry Seinfeld
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I had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.
— Rachel Caine
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You shouldn't call then anything. They're poor unfortunate people who cannot help the way they look,
— Jacqueline Wilson
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Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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I once had a dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events some of those dreams dashed and divided like…
— Lana Del Rey
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a…
— Ally Carter
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Where in the world did you get that dress?" "Present from Zu." "You look like you want to throw it in a fire." "I can't…
— Alexandra Bracken
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It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.
— RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
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What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones.…
— Ruskin Bond
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Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
— Clarence Day
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You find this curious fact, that the more intense has been the religion of any period and more profound has been the dogmatic belief, the…
— Bertrand Russell
Who Wrote These Unfortunate Quotes
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