Misfortune Quotes

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Oscar Wilde

May, Lose, Both

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
Aristotle

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Chanakya

Wife, Friend, Adversity

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Acceptance, Step, Happened

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill

Often, Defeat, Temporary

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
Frank Sinatra

Rock, Ugly, Desperate

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato

Great, Learning, Ignorance

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cannot, Minds, Quiet

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Marcus Aurelius

Good, Future, Remember

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
William James

Acceptance, Step, Happened

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
Jane Austen

Woman, She, Knowing

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
Blaise Pascal

Weather, Matter, Days

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.
Saskya Pandita

Silence, Means, Speech

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

Sorry, Everyone, Himself

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Great, Minds, Rise

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Someone, Him, Between

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.
Honore de Balzac

Happiness, Happy, Bad

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.
Epicurus

Wise, Fool, Prosperity

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

Life, Wise, Greatest

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?
Euripides

Friend, Remains

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf

Down, Triumph, Likes

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.
Aeschylus

Men, Lives, Picture

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil

Help, Learn, Acquainted

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham

Bored, Willing, Sight

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
Sophocles

Good, Help, Task

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll

Wind, Compromise, Sudden

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.
Simone Weil

Suffering, Else, Poverty

With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed.
Simone Weil

Great, Human, Him

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

Heart, Whether, Call

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