Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.
Quentin Crisp

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Louis Kronenberger

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington Irving

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
Madame de Stael

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Aesop

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
Eliza Haywood

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Gideon Welles

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus

We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.
Sophocles