Emergencies Quote by Slavoj Žižek

“as in Heinrich Heine’s (a contemporary of Kierkegaard’s) well-known saying that one should value above everything else ‘freedom, equality and crab soup’. ‘Crab soup’…

— Slavoj Žižek

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought,…

— Paul Valery

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

— Jean de la Bruyere

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has…

— Franz Kafka

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

— Jules Verne

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

— Aristotle

I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.

— Mary Russell Mitford

“And even though we may be involved with the most important affairs, achieve distinction or fall into some great misfortune- all the same, let…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.

— Baltasar Gracian

It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political…

— Jefferson Davis

What passes out of one's mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.

— Desiderius Erasmus