MISFORTUNE QUOTES II

quotations about misfortune

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.

SHERI S. TEPPER

The Visitor


Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

EURIPIDES

fragment, Antiope

Tags: Euripides


Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.

ALBERT CAMUS

The Plague

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O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune's book.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

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The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote

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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

Tags: Norman MacDonald


As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.

SCOTT ADAMS

Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!

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The longer you dwell on your misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm you.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

BERNARD BECKETT

Genesis

Tags: Bernard Beckett


Since misfortunes cannot be avoided, let them be generously borne; it is not for any sort of men to expect an exemption from the common lot of mankind; and no person is truly great, but he that keeps up the same dignity of mind in all conditions.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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Misfortune begets misfortune: life is a misfortune, for it may be the means of enduring misfortune; and death is a misfortune, as it abridges the enjoyments of life.

JAMES FENIMORE COOPER

The Spy

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As the worm crawleth up to the surface only when it rains, so doth a man's best self emerge only in misfortune.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Misfortune is, like the honest man, as good as her word.

MADAME SWETCHINE

"Airelles", The Writings of Madame Swetchine

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If all men would bring their misfortunes together in one place, most would be glad to take his own home again, rather than to take a proportion out of the common stock.

SOLON

attributed, Day's Collacon


Only he has a right to complain of undeserved misfortune, that is unwilling to accept undeserved good fortune.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

KIRBY LARSON

Hattie Big Sky

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Misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

Jo's Boys

Tags: Louisa May Alcott


When two laugh it is certain a misfortune has happened--to a third.

CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM

The Maxims of Marmaduke

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Everybody has their days of misfortune.

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

An Old-Fashioned Girl

Tags: Louisa May Alcott


If misfortune assail thee, put on the helmet of patience, and draw the sabre of resolution; then shall it flee before thee.

AR-RASHID

attributed, Day's Collacon