Misfortunes Quotes - Page 14

• I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

  Arthur Rimbaud

  Parent, Baptism, Slave

  Arthur Rimbaud (1962). “Rimbaud”

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• If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

  Maxim Gorky

  Men, People, Soul

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• I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Athlete, Choices, Soul

  Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.176, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

  Richard Armour

  Stupidity, Weakness, Endless

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• Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

  Andre Gide

  Sympathy, Real, Great Men

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• Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims with sympathy for the millions of unfortunates who through misfortune, misguidedness or pure stupidity live anywhere else in the world.

  Russell Lynes

  Sympathy, Real, Heart

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• The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes, should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Inspiration, Journey

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1858). “The life and letters of Thomas Jefferson: being his autobiography and select correspondence, from original manuscripts”, p.187

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• Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

  Ovid

  Heart, My Heart, Affectionate

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• Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

  Socrates

  Change, Remember, Fortune

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• Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.

  Plato

  Atheist, Ignorance, Roots

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

  Austin O'Malley

  Inspirational, Fathers Day, Dad

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• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

  Publilius Syrus

  Carpe Diem, Advice, Delight

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 467, 1856.

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• And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.

  Plato

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

  Plato (2015). “The Complete Plato”, p.1764, Booklassic

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• What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

  Sophocles

  Fate, Blame, Knows

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• It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

  Sophocles

  Men, Good Man, Tasks

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• Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

  Publius Attius Varus

  Men, Fame, He Man

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• O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.

  Abdul-Qadir Gilani

  Wisdom, Islamic, Fall

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• A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.

  Hesiod

  Blessing, Neighbor, Good Neighbor

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• Whom do I call educated? First, those who manage well the circumstances they encounter day by day. Next, those who are decent and honorable in their intercourse with all men, bearing easily and good naturedly what is offensive in others and being as agreeable and reasonable to their associates as is humanly possible to be... those who hold their pleasures always under control and are not ultimately overcome by their misfortunes... those who are not spoiled by their successes, who do not desert their true selves but hold their ground steadfastly as wise and sober - minded men.

  Socrates

  Life, Success, Education

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• Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

  James De Mille

  Disappointment, Sadness, Long

  James De Mille (2015). “A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder”, p.108, Booklassic

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• A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.

  Thucydides

  Country, Successful, Men

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• Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune.

  Barack Obama

  People, Pro Life, Together

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• When a country is in harmony with the Tao, the factories make trucks and tractors. When a country goes counter to the Tao, warheads are stockpiled outside the cities. There is no greater illusion than fear, no greater wrong than preparing to defend yourself, no greater misfortune than having an enemy. Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe.

  Laozi

  Country, Fear, Cities

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• I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Childhood, Ballet, Age

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• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture.

  Simon Armitage

  Karma

  Simon Armitage (2011). “The Death of King Arthur”, p.62, Faber & Faber

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