Fortunate Quote by Clarence Thomas

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the…

— Ludwig van Beethoven

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

— Oscar Wilde

Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find…

— Christopher Reeve

There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the…

— Thomas Mann

I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

— Stendhal

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

“The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself—but you just can’t help it.”

— Joseph Frank

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

— Seneca the Younger

If you would reflect well and wisely, you would realize that those events you regard as personal misfortunes have served a useful purpose even…

— Christine de Pizan

Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.

— Boyd K. Packer