Misfortunes Quotes - Page 24

• One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

  Voltaire

  People, Coward, Honest

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• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

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• We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

  Robert Hughes

  Wisdom, Australia, Evil

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• It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

  Voltaire

  Real, Men, Poverty

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.79, Penguin

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• 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.

  Voltaire

  Happy Times, History, Virtue

  Voltaire, John Morley, William F. Fleming, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh (1904). “The Works of Voltaire: Ancient and modern history”

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• Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

  Menander

  Hope, Midst, Persons

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• It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

  David Lodge

  Sleep, Thinking, Awakening

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• 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.

  Scott Adams

  Laughing, Misfortunes Of Others, Exception

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.186, Penguin

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• Chairman Mao creatively applied Marxism-Leninism to every aspect of the Chinese revolution, and he had creative views on philosophy, political science, military science, literature and art, and so on. Unfortunately, in the evening of his life, particularly during the "Cultural Revolution", he made mistakes - and they were not minor ones - which brought many misfortunes upon our Party, our state and our people.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Art, Philosophy, Military

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Yield, Risk

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• Individual misfortunes give rise to the general good; so that the more individual misfortunes exist, the more all is fine.

  Voltaire

  Failure, Giving, Individual

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• The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.

  A.J. Ayer

  God, Religious, Jobs

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• We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Mean

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• A handicapped person is a human being with the same heart as anyone else. It's not a misfortune if you can't hear-it's just an inconvenience.

  Aya Kito

  Heart, Inconvenience, Humans

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• I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.

  Patrick Stump

  Artist, Names, Personality

  "The Idolator Interview: Butch Walker And Patrick Stump". www.idolator.com. December 16, 2008.

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• The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Pain, Wish

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• Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish reverie. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Essence, Evil

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• It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Love, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• Have recourse trustfully to Gods loving kindness and He will not forsake you, for He longs to bestow His graces. Though you may have had the misfortune to offend Him, He is always ready to receive you, provided you return humbly to Him.

  Margaret Mary Alacoque

  Kindness, Grace, May

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• If a man has no worries about himself at all for the sake of love toward God and the working of good deeds, knowing that God is taking care of him, this is a true and wise hope. But if a man takes care of his own business and turns to God in prayer only when misfortunes come upon him which are beyond his power, and then he begins to hope in God, such a hope is vain and false. A true hope seeks only the Kingdom of God... the heart can have no peace until it obtains such a hope. This hope pacifies the heart and produces joy within it.

  Seraphim of Sarov

  Inspirational, Wise, Christian

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• If suffer some misfortune, then think: "The Lord sees my heart, and if it pleases Him, it will be well both for me and and others." And thus your soul will always be at peace. But is someone murmurs, "This is bad, and that is bad," then he will never have peace in his soul, even though he fasts and prays a lot.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God's care for him.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater.

  Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

  Military, War, Blow

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• I don't regard Jews as a class. I regard them as a privileged misfortune.

  William Joyce

  Class, Jew, Regard

  William Joyce's speech at Chiswick (1934) as quoted in Francis Selwyn "Hitler's Englishman: Crime of Lord Haw-Haw" (p. 43), 1987.

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• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Dream, Determination

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