Misfortunes Quotes - Page 9

• We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Hunger And Poverty, World, Crime

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dirty, Men, Giving

  Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.78, Modern Library

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• Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Guilt, Unqualified

  Jonathan Swift (1752). “The works of D. Jonathan Swift ...: To which is prefixed, the doctor's life, with remarks on his writings, from the Earl of Orrery and others, not to be found in any former edition of his works.Dublin printed”, p.281

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• Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

  Aristotle

  Life, Men, Cost

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.89, Aristotle

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• Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Inspire, Danger

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hate our success.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Hate, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.216

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• Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He only who created thee can satisfy thee. If thou ask for anything else, it is thy misfortune, for He alone made thee in His image can satisfy thee. That's rich, isn't it?

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Soul, Sound, Want

  Robin Jones Gunn (2009). “Sierra Jensen Collection”, p.385, Multnomah

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• This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.

  Simon Armitage

  Home, Hands, Hatred

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• People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.

  Victor Hugo

  People, Looks, Trouble

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

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• The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Challenges, Distinguished

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.196, Vintage

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• The wisest were just the poor and simple people. They knew the war to be a misfortune, whereas those who were better off, and should have been able to see more clearly what the consequences would be, were beside themselves with joy.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  War, Simple, Should Have

  Erich Maria Remarque, Helmuth Kiesel, Joseph Roth (2004). “All quiet on the western front”, Continuum International Publishing Group

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• It is not true that fate slips silently into our lives. It steps in through the door that we have opened, and we invite it to enter. No one is strong enough or cunning enough to avert by word or deed the misfortune that is rooted in the iron laws of his character and his life.

  Sándor Márai

  Strong, Character, Fate

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• Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

  Ned Vizzini

  No Excuses, Excuse, Cruelty

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• Helen Keller became deaf, dumb, and blind shortly after birth. Despite her greatest misfortune, she has written her name indelibly in the pages of the history of the great. Her entire life has served as evidence that no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as reality.

  Napoleon Hill

  Reality, Names, Dumb

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Humanity, Christianity, Antichrist

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Feelings, Stones, Fool

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1981). “Don Quixote”, Signet Classics

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• There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.

  Mikhail Bulgakov

  Loss, World, Reason

  Mikhail Bulgakov (2016). “THE MASTER AND MARGARITA: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.67, Penguin

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• Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Comeback, Insult, Sexuality

  "Lettres Persanes" by Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, No. 3. (Zachi writing to Usbek), 1721.

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• A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Fate, Men, Arrows

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• It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

  Henri Poincare

  Mean, Science, Perfect

  Henri Poincare (2012). “The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincare”, p.236, Modern Library

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• Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think ofhimself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.

  Simone Weil

  Failure, Sleep, Men

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• All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Iron, History, Endurance

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.93, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation of a man and woman who love each other with passion and imagination and tenderness, there is something of inestimable value, to be ignorant of which is a great misfortune to any human being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Believe, Passion

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.46, Routledge

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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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