Easy Quote by Seneca the Younger

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

— Martin Seligman

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— 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

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

— Stendhal

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

Those who foresee the future and recognize it as tragic are often seized upon by a madness which forced them to commit the very…

— Rebecca West

The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.

— Adrienne Monnier

There is scarcely an occurrence in nature which, happening at a certain time, is not looked upon by some persons as a prognosticator either…

— Charles Mackay

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

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Anonymous

It seems to me, Monsieur, that there is nothing more galling in great physical misfortunes than to be compelled to make all those about…

— Charlotte Bronte

There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us…

— Jean de la Bruyere