Misfortunes Quotes - Page 8

• It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

  Jules Verne

  Solitude, Reason, My Friends

  Jules Verne, Jules VERNE (2016). “Abandoned”, p.192, Jules Verne

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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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• 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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• …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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• 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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• 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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• It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It's not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.

  Conan O'Brien

  Positive, Attitude, Unique

  "Honorary Degree Recipient Conan O'Brien's Commencement Address to Dartmouth College Graduates". www.dartmouth.edu. 2011.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Patience, Wisdom, Limits

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Strength, World, Indifference

  Oliver Goldsmith (1825). “A History of the Earth: And Animated Nature”, p.870

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• You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Happiness, Love You, What Matters

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2015). “The Brothers Karamazov”, p.430, First Avenue Editions

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• Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

  Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

  Worry

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mean, Political

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• The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

  Plutarch

  Motivation, Crazy, Inspiration

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• Character determines how we lead our lives, how we deal with life's unearned fortunes and misfortunes and how we make choices that determine how those fortunes and misfortunes work to make us what we become.

  Michael Josephson

  Character, Choices, Fortune

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• It can even come about that a created will cancels out, not perhaps the exertion, but the result of divine action; for in this sense, God himself has told us that God wishes things which do not happen because man does not wish them! Thus the rights of men are immense, and his greatest misfortune is to be unaware of them.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Men, Rights, Wish

  Joseph De Maistre (2011). “The Generative Principle of Political Constitutions: Studies on Sovereignty, Religion, and Enlightenment”, Transaction Publishers

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• Enjoy the present, bid defiance to the future, laugh at all those reasonable beings who exercise their reason to avoid the misfortunes which they fear, destroying at the same time the pleasure that they might enjoy.

  Giacomo Casanova

  Exercise, Laughing, Might

  Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 2: To Paris and Prison”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Practice

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.164, Penguin Books India

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• But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

  Pliny the Elder

  Adversity, Men

  "Complete Works of Pliny the Elder".

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• Misfortune can force you into doing things you should be doing anyway. Lessons come from adversity. Anything can happen to anyone... You can find a new lease on life - more meaning than you thought possible in simple things... Let go. Live in the moment. Go forward.

  Christopher Reeve

  Letting Go, Adversity, Simple

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• Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

  Og Mandino

  Good Luck, Adversity, Encounters

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