Accepting Quote by Lydia M. Child

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

— Lydia M. Child

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

Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses, it would still be just to deem it good for something.

— Jean de La Fontaine

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

— Honore de Balzac

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because…

— Simone Weil

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

— Epicurus

“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

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

— Francois Guizot

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to…

— Simone Weil

... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but…

— Henry de Montherlant

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's…

— Honore de Balzac