Misfortunes Quotes

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

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.

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

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

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.

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

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.