Misfortunes Quotes - Page 27

• You must moderate yourself according to your strength. When you have done all that you can to see that no Christian is perverted, you must find your consolation in Our Lord, who could prevent this misfortune and who is not doing so.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Christian, Done

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents”

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• [P]resent misfortune presupposes good luck in the future.

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Good Luck, Resent

  Saint Vincent de Paul (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: I. Correspondence. v. 1. 1607-1639”, BNA Books (Bureau of National Affairs)

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• Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

  George Washington

  Rumor, Flow, Serious

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1836). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. IV. Letters official and private, from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life: (v. 10) May, 1789-November, 1794. (v. 11) November, 1794-December, 1799”, p.124

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• Never blame a man for misfortune, do it yourself.

  Rapsody

  Men, Blame, Do It Yourself

  "Dark Knights". Song by Rapsody, 2013.

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• ... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Views, Tasks, May

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• QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beauty, Names, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.285, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

  Harry Browne

  War, Government, Careers

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• Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.

  Yusuf al-Qaradawi

  Mistake, Goal, Warning

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• The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Theory, Performances, Supreme

  Notebooks c

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• The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Mean, Eye, Fate

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism”, p.5, Arthur Schopenhauer

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• It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Criminals, Wickedness, Weak

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Son of Tarzan: Mystery & Adventure Story”, p.18, 谷月社

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• We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

  Charles Portis

  Bears

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.43, A&C Black

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• There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Dying Alone, Dying, Greater

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• Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Able

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• The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; Mallarmé speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is history or poetry, which are not essentially different.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Art, Memories, Book

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• Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Born, Fortune, Good Fortune

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• My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Goats, Too Much

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.593, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Circles, Ties, Despair

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2007). “Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus [1818 Text]: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.311, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The strength I'm looking for isn't the type where you win or lose. I'm not after a wall that'll repel power coming from outside. What I want us the kind of strength to be able to absorb that kind of power, to stand up to it.The strength to quietly endure things - unfairness, misfortunes, sadness, mistakes, misunderstandings.

  Haruki Murakami

  Wall, Mistake, Sadness

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• The wheel of fortune [...] tells us that we all only want victory. We all want to triumph. But we all have to learn to endure what comes. We have to learn to treat misfortune and great fortune with indifference. That is wisdom.

  Philippa Gregory

  Victory, Triumph, Want

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.166, Simon and Schuster

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• There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Iron Will, Skills

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• Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?

  Elias Canetti

  Eye, People, Decision

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• No one has the right to be sorry for himself for a misfortune that strikes everyone.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Sorry, Philosophical, Strikes

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• Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Enemy, Literature, Authority

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• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Character, Suffering

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.496, Wordsworth Editions

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