Top 668 Misfortune Quotes & Sayings

Everybody has their days of misfortune.

If we put the emphasis upon the right things, if we live the life that is worth while and then fail, we will survive all disasters, we will out-live all misfortune. We should be so well balanced and symmetrical, that nothing which could ever happen could throw us off our center, so that no matter what misfortune should overtake us, there would still be a whole magnificent man or woman left after being stripped of everything else.

I actually think that I have been fortunate to have had misfortune, because the response, in responding to the misfortune, you develop in your own life, you develop sort of the tools you need to continue on, or to do better.

Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.

... But all the feelings that evoke in us the joy or the misfortune of a real person are only produced in us through the intermediary of an image of that joy or that misfortune; the ingeniousness of the first novelist was in understanding that, in the apparatus of our emotions, since the image is the only essential element, the simplification which consists of purely and simply suppressing the factual characters is a definitive improvement.

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

The authors of all our misfortune.

He said that those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength.

Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.

Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

When Misfortune is asleep, let no one wake her.

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.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.

This great misfortune, to be incapable of solitude.

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

Disabilities and misfortune can make you stronger.

Every war is a national misfortune.

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.

The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.

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.

Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!

The misfortune of the man of color is having been enslaved. The misfortune and inhumanity of the white man are having killed man somewhere.

One should not seek happiness, just nurture the spirit of joy as the basis of summoning happiness. One should not try to escape misfortune, just get rid of viciousness as a means of avoiding misfortune.

Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends.

The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

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.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

We learn by misfortune.

The misfortune of others is our misfortune. Our happiness is the happiness of others. To see ourselves in others and feel an inner oneness and sense of unity with them represents a fundamental revolution in the way we view and live our lives. Therefore, discriminating against another person is the same as discriminating against oneself. When we hurt another, we are hurting ourselves. And when we respect others, we respect and elevate our own lives as well.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

The people’s good fortune is my misfortune!

Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.

All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.

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

Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

The memory of man is as old as misfortune

To be out of harmony with one's surroundings is of course a misfortune, but it is not always a misfortune to be avoided at all costs. Where the environment is stupid or prejudiced or cruel, it is a sign of merit to be out of harmony with it.

People are not soured by misfortune, but by the reception they meet with in it.

I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Misfortune was my god.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

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

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.

For all of my fortune, there are many with misfortune that need a hand.

I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.