Words matter. These are the best Misfortune Quotes from famous people such as Adrian McKinty, S. Ansky, Oscar Wilde, Stefan Zweig, William James, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you’re from and speaks to you about your life – or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of ‘border,’ and that is what I have experienced.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
No one likes to feel helpless. We find it psychologically unbearable and inside ourselves we may try to make ourselves part author of our misfortune rather than simply the recipient of it.
I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, ‘We need you.’ There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.
Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided ‘no’.
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
My biggest misfortune, my greatest regret, is that I wish I’d cut my time with Clint in half. I wouldn’t say I wish I never had the relationship, but I wish I’d found a way – I’d understood who he was, where it would end – five or six years earlier so I could have gotten on with things.
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.
In 2004 I had the fortune – or the misfortune – of playing John Kerry. It was hard because I think the best impressions exaggerate someone’s most well-known quality. And exaggerating gravitas is very hard to pull off.
Doing what’s right is no guarantee against misfortune.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
I was always clear that I didn’t want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society that will change the system of inequity, not one person’s misfortune.
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.
It saddens me to see the entrepreneurial world in Brazil, because it’s a misfortune to be a boss in our country, with so many labor laws.
It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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?
It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.
If you’ve spent any time on social media, you may have had the misfortune of coming up against a cowardly troll who hides behind a Twitter handle or Facebook page to criticize or attack you for any number of grievances, real or perceived.
There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.
It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.
The misfortune is that many people, men and women, think that the perfect face has no flaws, no pores in the skin; and that gives unrealistic levels of esteem. Somebody feels they’re not right because they haven’t got that type of refinement.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Only in a popular war against France… do I see a misfortune.
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
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.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
The concept of what we’re looking for is so important. The fact that the effect is tiny is just our misfortune.
The government’s War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
To be fair, I don’t think it’s a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
It’s the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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.
The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven’t a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I’ve had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking – the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.
No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.
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 just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us think that doctors and drugs are going to control and help us, but the reality is we’re our own best doctor.
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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.
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
