Ifs Quote by Janet Erskine Stuart

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could…

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Stanisław I Leszczyński

There are a lot of things that I'd do differently. But I can't imagine being more fortunate than I have been.

— Jamie Hyneman

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

I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some other life…

— Bill Murray

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

— R. K. Milholland

Misfortunes make us wise.

— Mary Norton

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God…

— Charles Bukowski

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

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

— Bias of Priene

It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.

— Henry David Thoreau