Irritation Quote by Dorothy Parker

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were…

— Simone Weil

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

— Honore de Balzac

The effect of great and inevitable misfortune is to elevate those souls which it does not deprive of all virtue.

— Francois Guizot

Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair...

— Martin Seligman

Misfortunes seldom come singly

— Hashem Shatila

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

— Seneca the Younger

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

— Abraham Lincoln

“There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. To have lost one's self-respect: that is what unhappiness is.…

— Thomas Mann

“A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not expect. All…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.”

— Honore de Balzac

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

— Honore de Balzac

Hardship And Misfortune May Be Unpleasant, But They Can Sometimes Have A Beneficial Effect On The Character, Especially When People Fail To Appreciate The…

— Pacifiersucker