Misfortunes Quotes

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

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.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

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

Misfortune does not always result in harm.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

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

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent.

Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

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.

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

There is no greater misfortune, than to not be able to endure misfortune.

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

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

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune... to lose both seems like carelessness.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

Be patient with a bad neighbor: he may move or face misfortune.

When the tide of misfortune moves over you, even jelly will break your teeth

There is something in the misfortune of our best friends which does not displease us.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune.

He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity.

But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

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.

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Envy is the only name she could find for the monstrous thing she faced, but it was much worse than envy: it was the profound hatred of life, of success and of all human values, felt by a certain kind of mediocrity...the kind who feels pleasure on hearing about a stranger's misfortune. It was hatred of the good for being the good...hatred of ability, of beauty, of honesty, of earnestness, of achievement and, above all, of human joy.

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserable fate for a painter who adores blondes to have to stop himself putting them into a picture because they don't go with the basket of fruit! ... I put all the things I like into my pictures. The things - so much the worse for them. They just have to put up with it.

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him, a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster.

Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

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 the Law that any difficulties that can come to you at any time, no matter what they are, must be exactly what you need most at the moment, to enable you to take the next step forward by overcoming them. The only real misfortune, the only real tragedy, comes when we suffer without learning the lesson.