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Misfortune Quotes
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Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones (Misfortune Quotes)
Instead of giving in to the greatest misfortune that can happen at my age, deafness, I busy myself in searching out all possible compensations, and I apply myself much more to all the amusements that are here within my grasp (Misfortune Quotes)
My mind shrank from the menace sweeping down on us, as children’s do from belief in death and misfortune, vainly clinging to the fancy that great disasters only happen to other people (Misfortune Quotes)
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards (Misfortune Quotes)
Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft (Misfortune Quotes)
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter (Misfortune Quotes)
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can (Misfortune Quotes)
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune (Misfortune Quotes)
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless (Misfortune Quotes)
Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life (Misfortune Quotes)
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm (Misfortune Quotes)
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer (Misfortune Quotes)
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power (Misfortune Quotes)
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph (Misfortune Quotes)
I’ve always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune (Misfortune Quotes)
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate (Misfortune Quotes)
Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living (Misfortune Quotes)
Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise (Misfortune Quotes)
Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune (Misfortune Quotes)
Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth (Misfortune Quotes)
For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life (Misfortune Quotes)
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only (Misfortune Quotes)
We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime (Misfortune Quotes)
If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else (Misfortune Quotes)
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 (Misfortune Quotes)
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world (Misfortune Quotes)
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation (Misfortune Quotes)
He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength (Misfortune Quotes)
For he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him (Misfortune Quotes)
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing (Misfortune Quotes)