A Quote by Albert Camus

There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.

Albert Camus

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Albert Camus
French - Philosopher
November 7, 1913 - January 4, 1960

For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.

Albert Camus

Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.

Mason Cooley

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions.

Kirby Larson

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.

Soren Kierkegaard

Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.

Rocko

Moreover, nothing is so rare as to see misfortune fairly portrayed; the tendency is either to treat the unfortunate person as though catastrophe were his natural vocation, or to ignore the effects of misfortune on the soul, to assume, that is, that the soul can suffer and remain unmarked by it, can fail, in fact, to be recast in misfortune's image.

Simone Weil

Misfortune is the root of good fortune; good fortune gives birth to misfortune.

Laozi

Hidden in all good fortune is misfortune. And in all misfortune is good fortune. It's never going to stay the same as long you are in the world or unless you die while you are alive and become an enlightened Zen Master. But those people don't exist. When you study their lives, you find that they had the same struggles as the rest of us. It's not so much about being able to always have calm. Calmness isn't just the absence of noise or troubles. It's being able to find calm within yourself when other stuff is going on.

Wayne Dyer

Jesus wanted to show us his heart as the heart that loved so deeply. For this reason we have this commemoration today, especially of God's love. God loved us, he loved us with such great love. I am thinking of what St Ignatius told us.... He pointed out two criteria on love. The first: love is expressed more clearly in actions than in words. The second: there is greater love in giving than in receiving.