Misfortunes Quotes - Page 15

• Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Perspective, Entrepreneur

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Dreams of Elsewhere”, p.162, Neil Wilson Publishing

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• Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

  Isabel Allende

  Suffering, May, Said

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• The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Wind, Compromise

  Charles R. Swindoll (1981). “Make up your mind --about the issues of life”, Multnomah Publishers

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• Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

  Anthony Trollope

  Life, Success, Unfortunate

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “Orley Farm”

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• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, World Suffering, Want Something

  Simone Weil (1998). “Simone Weil”

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• …misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Luck, Interesting, Luck

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Women Collection: Little Women, Little Men, Eight Cousins and More”, p.784, Xist Publishing

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• Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

  Edith Wharton

  Substance, Literature, Lilies

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The House of Mirth: Edith Wharton”, p.33, VM eBooks

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• My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

  Ellen G. White

  Mean, Use, Care

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• One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

  Virginia Woolf

  Strong Women, Adversity, People

  Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Misfortune and Fortune are eerily similar, but Fortune is a better dresser and more fun at parties.

  Janette Rallison

  Fun, Party, Fortune

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• Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.

  Marquis de Sade

  War, Men, Race

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• You know, son, I don't think there's such a thing as an easy life. There's always going to be hard work and there will always be misfortunes we can't control, lurking out at the edges - storms, sickness, wolves. But there is such a thing as a good life and I think that we have one here.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Good Life, Hard Work, Son

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.625, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.

  Tim Wise

  Drinking, College, Cities

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• Therefore the misfortune which comes to man as a result of the fact that he was a child is that his freedom was first concealed from him and that all his life he will be nostalgic for the time when he did not know it's exigencies.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Men, Firsts

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Powerful, Men, Guarantees

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2016). “Democracy in America”, p.42, Xist Publishing

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• For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

  Albert Camus

  Love, Luck, Bad Luck

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.201, Vintage

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• Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Parenting, Hazards, Moral Hazard

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• There was a difference between people looking at you because they wanted to be like you, and people looking at you because your misfortune brought them one rung higher.

  Jodi Picoult

  Differences, People, Like You

  Jodi Picoult (2013). “Nineteen Minutes: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

  Junior Seau

  Stories, Waste, Wasting Time

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• And the little prince broke into a lovely peal of laughter, which irritated me very much. I like my misfortunes to be taken seriously.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Laughter, Taken, Lovely

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.22, eKitap Projesi

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• Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

  Frank Sinatra

  Music, Rock And Roll, Rocks

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• I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Knows

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• in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

  Alexandre Dumas

  Prayer, Heaven, Sublime

  Alexandre Dumas (2016). “The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask”, p.158, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

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• A man endures misfortune without complaint.

  Franz Schubert

  Men, Endure, Complaints

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• We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Affection, Solicitude

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