Top 858 Unfortunate Quotes & Sayings

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

I just want people to recognize my father as an artist who was way ahead of his time. He was a genius. His life just burnt out quicker than it should have. And that is unfortunate, but what is more unfortunate is that everybody focuses on the nature of his death as opposed to the nature of his life, which was so much greater and more important.

It's so unfortunate that people have this need to join gangs.

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

It's seriously unfortunate when an elected official of the federal government says she's [Michelle Bachmann] going to deliberately break the law. I don't know what kind of signal she thinks that sends, but if she believes that's a good signal, I'm sad for the country. I think that it's deeply, deeply, unfortunate that a member of Congress would, in effect, invite other people who feel that way to say, "Well, I don't have to do it either."

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

Aftab has been singularly unfortunate in love.

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways-because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

It's unfortunate to lose guys in their rookie year.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

The unfortunate thing about this planet is that we are in no shortage of ignorance.

I was unfortunate at Tottenham.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Back in the late '90s, a writer named Daniel Handler decided that kids books were too cheerful. I mean, all the "Harry Potter" series did was occasionally kill off major characters. Thus was born "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" and its mysterious author, Lemony Snicket. "A Series Of Unfortunate Events" is now a great new series on Netflix.

Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

Consequently, pictures are aimed at certain audiences, whether it be a teen comedy or an action movie or whatever. It's unfortunate, because while it may lead to big opening grosses, a lot of pictures that are a little different and don't fit so neatly into either a niche market or a high-concept marketing approach can get lost in the shuffle. That's one unfortunate thing.

I just think more precaution should be taken when I'm inside the pocket. Look at all the replays - I'm on the ground every time. It's unfortunate for myself, it's unfortunate for my team and I'd be lying if I sat here and said I wasn't frustrated right now.

It's unfortunate we've never been just songwriters.

I have an unfortunate personality.

Of course my moods change, but the average is serenity. I have a firm faith in art, a firm confidence in its being a powerful stream which carries a man to a harbor, though he himself must do his bit too; at all events, I think it such a great blessing when a man has found his work that I cannot count myself among the unfortunate. I mean, I may be in certain relatively great difficulties, and there may be gloomy days in my life, but I shouldn't like to be counted among the unfortunate, nor would it be correct if I were.

It's unfortunate that sometimes the personal things affect the business.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

Yes, Sept 11th was unfortunate

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

I think it's unfortunate to have critics for friends.

Ridicule is the unfortunate destiny of the ridiculous.

That most unfortunate war, which I deeply deplore.

Not knowing of the eternal leads to unfortunate errors.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

If one cannot use technology then it is really unfortunate.

By resorting to self-resignation, the unfortunate consummate.

I think it is very unfortunate that there is a ban on adoptions in Russia.

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

You can say, 'Well, isn't it unfortunate that chaos is represented by the feminine' - well, it might be unfortunate, but it doesn't matter, because that is how it's represented. It's been represented like that forever. And there are reasons for it. You can't change it. It's not possible. This is underneath everything.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

I would not hesitate to say that it is unfortunate that so-called demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham at this time, but I would say in more emphatic terms that it is even more unfortunate that the white power structure of this city left the Negro community with no other alternative.

Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.

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

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

It is unfortunate that as a country we don't have this culture of promoting health and sports.

Unfortunate. Unfortunate. Sometimes people struggling for freedom lose their way.

It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the kind of 24-hour news cycle, the fact that everything is on TV before you can work things out quietly. I think it's the intensity of information that makes it feel more difficult to get things done. But I didn't leave with a bitter taste about the politics. The one thing that I would say is, I do think there is an unfortunate tendency to turn political differences, or policy differences, into critiques of one another's character or motives, and that's unfortunate.

People who don't have a concept of the whole can do very unfortunate things.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

I've got whole years of unfortunate clothing in '80s.