Misfortunes Quotes - Page 32

• Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

  Napoleon Hill

  Wisdom, Motivation, Enlightening

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.69, Penguin

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• The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

  Herodotus

  Wise, Men, Hateful

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• It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

  Clay Shirky

  Historical, Expansion, Generations

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• I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only a small portion to descend to his relatives. Even if he has children, I consider it a mistake to hand over to them considerable sums of money beyond what is necessary for their education. To do so merely encourages laziness and impedes the healthy development of the individual's capacity to make an independent position for himself.

  Alfred Nobel

  Children, Mistake, Independent

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• There is no greater offence than harbouring desires. There is no greater disaster than discontent. There is no greater misfortune than wanting more.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Desire, Wanting More

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• Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!

  Albert Camus

  Cutting, Animal, Giving

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• For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn; yet, in view of its political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune for the South.

  Jefferson Davis

  War, Views, Political

  Jefferson Davis (1912). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”

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• One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.

  Aristophanes

  Adversity, Grace, Trying

  Aristophanes (2012). “The Thesmophoriazusae”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.

  Claude Levi-Strauss

  Confused, Teaching, Greatness

  Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin

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• My misfortune is doubly painful to me because it will result in my being misunderstood. For me there can be no recreation in the company of others, no intelligent conversation, no exchange of information with peers; only the most pressing needs can make me venture into society. I am obliged to live like an outcast.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Intelligent, Misunderstood, Needs

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• for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

  Jane Austen

  Men, Would Be, Disagreeable

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.15

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• A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Faults, Melancholy

  Abraham Lincoln (1982). “Abraham Lincoln, wisdom & wit”, Peter Pauper Pr

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• 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.

  Cormac McCarthy

  All The Pretty Horses, Said

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.223, Pan Macmillan

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• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  Victor Hugo

  Hero, Eye, Feet

  Victor Hugo, Charles Edwin Wilbour (1987). “Les misérables”, Dutton Adult

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• The greater part of our misfortunes are brought on by neglecting the chances that yesterday gave us.

  James Ellis

  Yesterday, Chance, Neglect

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• Optimism has always seemed to me the cunning alibi of egoists, anxious to cover up their state of chronic self-satisfaction. They are optimists in order to avoid pitying other men and their misfortune. ~~ Yet pity is a vexed question.

  Georges Bernanos

  Men, Self, Order

  Georges Bernanos (1938). “A diary of my times”

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• A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

  Aesop

  Men, Bitterness, Consciousness

  Edward J. Detmold, Aesop (2014). “The Fables of Aesop”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

  Haruki Murakami

  Thinking, Twists, Stories

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 17, 2013

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• Poverty, first of all was never a misfortune for me; it was radiant with sunlight.. I owe it to my family, first of all, who lacked everything and who envied practically nothing.

  Albert Camus

  Family First, Poverty, Firsts

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• He goes along just as a water lily
  Gentle on the surface of his thoughts his body floats
  Unweighed down by passion or intensity
  Yet unaware of the depth upon which he coasts
  And he finds a home in me
  For what misfortune sows, he knows my touch will reap

  Fiona Apple

  Song, Passion, Home

  Song: Pale September, Album: Tidal, 1996

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• It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.

  Charles Simmons

  Evil, Wells, Prompts

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• The great majority of us are required to live a constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected by it if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn’t just a fiction, it’s part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can’t be forever violated with impunity.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Opposites, Duplicity

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• The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Remembrance, Former, Prove

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.146, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whatsoever misfortunes there are Here in this world or in the next, They all have their root in Ignorance And in the accumulation of Longing and Desire.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ignorance, Roots, Desire

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• When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

  Henry Kirke White

  Christian, May, Fortitude

  Henry Kirke White (1824). “The prose remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, late of St. John's College, Cambridge, containing his letters, essays, and some account of his life”, p.117

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