Misfortunes Quotes

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.