Misfortunes Quotes
Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.
No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.
It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody.
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.
We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.
Sir, that much prudence calls for too much worry; I cannot foresee misfortunes so far away.
History is but the record of crimes and misfortunes. L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs
Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.
Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.
For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.
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.
I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Le bonheur engloutit nos forces, comme le malheur e teint nos vertus. Happiness engulfs our strength, just as misfortune extinguishes our virtues.
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.
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
If we cannot define stupidity, at least we can trace most human misfortunes and weaknesses to it. Its manifestations are legion, its symptoms are endless.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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.
As a rule, I don't like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it's really, really funny.
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others
History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.