Alleviate Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

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

— Epicurus

The greatest misfortune that can come to a human being is to lose his inner peace. No outer force can rob him of it.…

— Sri Chinmoy

“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

One's own troubles can be borne with fortitude; only a monster of indifference can bear the sufferings of others with fortitude.

— Susan Ertz

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

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

— Martin Seligman

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

Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more…

— Andre Gide

“[W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by…

— Christine de Pizan

contemplating the misfortunes of others does not lighten one's own trouble but instead adds to it.

— Mignon G. Eberhart

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and…

— Adam Smith

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

— Francois Guizot