Misfortunes Quotes - Page 37

• The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Christian, Heaven, Arrogance

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• It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.

  Philip James Bailey

  Ungrateful People, Scoundrels, Obligation

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• If people were not wicked I should not mind their being stupid; but, to our misfortune, they are both.

  George Sand

  Stupid, People, Mind

  George Sand (2009). “Letters of George Sand”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Would Be, Saws, Ifs

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• Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.

  Stella Benson

  Men, Doors, People

  Stella Benson (1924). “Pipers and a Dancer”

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• Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.

  Aaron Hill

  Doubt, Mind, Arguing

  Aaron Hill (1760). “The Dramatic Works of Aaron Hill, Esq”, p.21

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• It is often a comfort in misfortune to know our own fate.
  [Lat., Saepe calamitas solatium est nosse sortem suam.]

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Fate, Comfort, Knows

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• ... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

  Margaret Halsey

  Thinking, Doe, Opinion

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• Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

  Fredrika Bremer

  Beauty, Heart, People

  Fredrika Bremer (1844). “New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace”, p.94

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• Misfortunes have their dignity and their redeeming power.

  George Stillman Hillard

  Dignity, Redeeming

  George Stillman Hillard (1854). “Six Months in Italy”, p.223

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• Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

  Sylvia Porter

  Motivation, Support, Coins

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

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• Most People are wretched more by the Fears of what may come, than what they endure at present. ... a manifest Contradiction to good Sense; for who, with the right use of that, wou'd lose the Enjoyment of a present Comfort, to lament a Misfortune only in Supposition; which ten to one never comes to pass.

  Eliza Haywood

  Fear, People, Live In The Moment

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• When you draw from the endless awareness of nirvana, you are no longer a slave to fortune. When pleasant experiences come your way, you can enjoy them. But if pain and misfortune befall you, you can rise above them and remain unaffected.

  Frederick Lenz

  Pain, Buddhism, Suffering

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