Misfortunes Quote by Victor Hugo

“He himself, on the other hand, with characteristic humility, avowed his belief that if Providence should see fit to remove him, it would be…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him,…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I would expostulate with myself why Providence should thus completely ruin His creatures, and render them so absolutely miserable; so without help, abandoned, so…

— Daniel Defoe

Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies.

— Alexander Pope

“A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supremely wise and loving Being is making all things work…

— F.B. Meyer

“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice…

— Boethius

“How infinitely good that Providence is which has provided, in its government of mankind, such narrow bounds to his sight and knowledge of things;…

— Daniel Defoe

“[N]early all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery—[is] the long terrible story of man trying to find something…

— C.S. Lewis

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He felt that institutions such as schools, churches, governments and political organizations of every sort all tended to direct thought for ends other than…

— Robert Pirsig

No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror.…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back; ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative and creation, there is one elementary…

— W.H. Murray