I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
John Hawley

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.
Thomas Francis Meagher

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
Socrates

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Margaret Cavendish

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Lucius Accius

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
Publilius Syrus

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Tacitus

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
Marquis de Sade

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Amy Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.
Voltaire

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
Marquis de Sade

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
Titus Livius

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
Michel de Montaigne

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
Giacomo Casanova