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.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.

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.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

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

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.

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

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

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

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

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.