quotes about Misfortunes
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A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
-- Albert Camus -
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
-- Albert Camus -
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
-- Alphonse Karr -
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The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
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We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.
-- Charles PortisSource : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.43, A&C Black
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It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
-- Charles Simmons -
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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship ...
-- Charlotte CharkeSource : Charlotte CHARKE (1826). “A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, youngest daughter of Colley Cibber ... Written by herself. With a portrait”
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He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.
-- Cormac McCarthy -
Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.
-- George Stillman HillardSource : George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223
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Every war is a national misfortune.
-- Helmuth James Graf von Moltke -
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Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.
-- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke -
We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
-- Honore de Balzac -
Lofty souls are always inclined to make a virtue of misfortune.
-- Honore de Balzac -
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Men take their misfortunes to heart and keep them there.
-- Ihara SaikakuSource : Saikaku Ihara (1958). “Five Japanese Love Stories”, London : Folio Societry
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What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.
-- Janet Erskine Stuart -
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
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No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.
-- John Dryden -
Some dire misfortune to portend, no enemy can match a friend.
-- Jonathan Swift -
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
-- Jules Verne -
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It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.
-- Kirby LarsonSource : Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.255, Yearling
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The memory of man is as old as misfortune
-- Lawrence Durrell -
The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance
-- Leonardo da Vinci -
Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.
-- Louisa May Alcott -
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Everybody has their days of misfortune.
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Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
-- Lucius Accius -
Misfortunes make us wise.
-- Mary NortonSource : Mary Norton (2001). “The Borrowers Afield”
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No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte -
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
-- Nicholas LingSource : Nicholas Ling, John Bodenham (1722). “Wits Common-wealth:, Or, A Treasury of Divine, Moral, Historical and Political Admonitions, Similies, and Sentences: For the Use of Schools”, p.53
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
-- Norm MacDonald -
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Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
-- OvidSource : Ovid (2015). “The Art Of Love”, p.30, Ovid
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With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.
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It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate. [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]
-- Quintus Curtius Rufus -
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.
-- Simon Armitage -
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Men do not go out to meet misfortune as we do. They learn it; and we--we divine it.
-- Sophie Swetchine -
How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
-- Sophocles -
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
-- StendhalSource : Stendhal's journal entry, December 10, 1801.
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
-- Victor Hugo -
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It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
-- VoltaireSource : "Equality" by Voltaire, 1764.
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Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!
-- Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du Deffand -
Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.
-- Shinjo ItoSource : Shinjō Itō (2009). “Shinjo: Reflections”, p.56