Misfortune Quotes

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misf...

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happ...

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortun...

Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which n...

That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to h...

Simplicity, patience, compassion.These three are your greatest treasures.Simple in actions and thoug...

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is ...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and...

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

We're not stupid! We're just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part s...

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and sai...

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, mo...

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much ...

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but...

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is...

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upo...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin do...

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I w...

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passion...