Misfortune Quotes

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

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.
Aeschylus

Wise, Against, Gods

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

Wise, Human, Influence

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Lord Chesterfield

Run, General, Seldom

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker

Humanity, Reason, Often

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Solitude, Incapable

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Emile M. Cioran

Others, Around, Interest

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.
Edith Wharton

Her, Easy, Less

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley

Father, Happen, Worst

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Bryant H. McGill

Knowledge, Enemy, Greatest

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides

Men, Expect, Brilliant

It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Ulysses S. Grant

Political, Training, Office

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Lord Acton

Society, Evil, Rich

A man's mother is his misfortune, but his wife is his fault.
Walter Bagehot

Mother, Wife, Fault

A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert

Complaint, Endures

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.
Paul Valery

Great, Thought, Wants

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.
Loretta Young

Good, Impossible, Everyone

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud

Parents, Slave, Baptism

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.
Charles de Secondat

Insult, Loved, Longer

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne

War, Government, Career

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.
Franz Schubert

Wise, Fool, Greatest

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

Difficult, Less, Pleasure

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau

Life, Time, Excuses

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.
Hesiod

Grow, Mortals, Swiftly

Misfortune was my god.
Arthur Rimbaud

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.
Anthony Trollope

Life, Success, Early

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.
Eliot Spitzer

Parenting, Bad, Same

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.
Alphonse Karr

Hope, Judge, Sleep

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.
George Mason

Life, Happiness, Wise

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