#Misfortune Quotes

“When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right.”

“Tis a cruelty to load a fallen man.”

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs”

“It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us”

“People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.”

“Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.”

“There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime.”

“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”

“One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.”

“Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.”

“The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.”

“Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.”

“Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others.”

“Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?”

“What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.”

“If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.”

“If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“I tell ya, I knew my morning wasn't going right. When I put on my shirt the button fell off, when I picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off, I tell ya, I was afraid to go to the bathroom.”

“When I got back into show business in 1961, I felt - for obvious reasons - that nothing in my life went right, and I realized that millions of people felt the same way. So when I first cameback my catch phrase was "nothing goes right." Early on, that was my setup for a lot of jokes.”

“Everyone gets their rough day. No one gets a free ride. Today so far, I had a good day. I got a dial tone.”

“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.”

“Among other causes of misfortune which your not being armed brings upon you, it makes you despised.”

“Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.”

“When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.”

“When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.”

“Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.”

“Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.”

“There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.”

“The consciousness of good intention is the greatest solace of misfortunes.”

“Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.”

“No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.”

“No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.”

“The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.”

“the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.”

“For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.”

“The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.”

“Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.”

“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”

“Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.”

“We often are consoled by our want of reason for misfortunes that reason could not have comforted.”

“Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.”

“In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.”

“We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.”

“A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.”

“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”

“But Gregor understood easily that it was not only consideration for him which prevented their moving, for he could easily have been transported in a suitable crate with a few air holes; what mainly prevented the family from moving was their complete hopelessness and the thought that they had been struck by a misfortune as none of their relatives and acquaintances had ever been hit.”

“We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.”