First time Quote by Leo Tolstoy

“Misfortune is liable to make me a damn bad man”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.”

— Virgil

“He saw nothing but misfortune--human error and misfortune. It brought him the most peace to simply believe that people were imperfect, and life was…

— Kaya McLaren

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus

“Every misfortune is a blessing in disguise.”

— Laurie Nadel

“the worst misfortune isn’t only misfortune”

— Marilynne Robinson

“What was misfortune but the quality of existing as something, or someone else, inside?”

— Madeleine Thien

“As those who have learned to rule their own mind will attest, misfortune is a state of mind long before it becomes a miserable…

— Guy Finley

“Slowed down by a sense of hopelessness in all his decisions and movements, he suffered from bitter sadness, and his incapacity solidified into a…

— Robert Musil

“So he knew terrible things- even the most terrible things-couldn't stop the world from turning. Life went on. And he made a promise to…

— Matt Haig

“He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach-that it makes no sense. And when that happens the happiness is never spontaneous again.”

— Philip Roth

“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