Quote by Emil Cioran

“A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.”

— Tracy Brogan

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson

“one might think one’s misfortunes distinct, but the true horror lay in their universality”

— Colson Whitehead

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

— Martin Seligman

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian,…

— Honore de Balzac

“This was the setting in which the most troubled and most precious days of my life were lived: an abode from which our adventurings…

— Alain-Fournier

“The daylight changes the aspect of misery to us, as of everything else. In the night it presses on our imagination—the forms it takes…

— George Eliot

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savour the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon.”

— Juliana Buhring

“The townsfolk in their darkened rooms were dazed as if by some cataclysm, some devastating earthquake, against which all wisdom and all resistance is…

— Guy de Maupassant

It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us.…

— Seneca the Younger

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

— Stendhal