Michel De Montaigne Quote by William Ury

“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: “How should I live?”

— Stefan Zweig

“Tragedy, sadness, loneliness and despair taught me that life is really a beautiful thing; if it wasn't I wouldn't be able to recognize that…

— Greg Evans

“Wasn't it true that Sometimes the greatest misfortunes brought unforseen rewards? -Don Corleone”

— Mario Puzo

“Montaigne said three hundred years ago, ‘Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”

— Michael Crichton

“Lost in this awful world, rubbing shoulders with the multitudes, I am like a tired man whose eye can't see behind him, in the…

— Charles Baudelaire

“I have experienced many terrible things in my life, and some of them have actually happened.”

— Elizabeth Helen Ivory

“The most tragic and deviant behaviour of all is that we live our lives like we will never die, and nonetheless we never live…

— Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D

“In his opinion, all the world’s misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende

“My life seemed so wretched, the future so hopeless, the past so black!”

— Leo Tolstoy

“One Life To Live , Thousands Of Mistakes To Be Made ”

— Archie Bunk

“All the world's misfortunes stemmed from the countless untruths, both deliberate and unintentional, which people told because of haste or carelessness.”

— Michael Ende