Misfortunes Quotes
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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Happiness or misfortune are prescribed by law of Heaven, but their source comes from ourselves.
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Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
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Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
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Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.
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Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
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He took his misfortune like a man - he blamed it on his wife.
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I do a TV show about a priest in London, and he is also slightly beleaguered and is subject to fate and misfortune and daily difficulty.
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How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.
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O you who complain to people about your misfortunes, what good will it do you to complain to creatures? They can bring you neither benefit nor harm. If you rely on them and associate partners with the Lord of the Truth, they will make you distant from Him, cause you to fall into His displeasure.
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All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.
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Misfortune is no excuse for cruelty.
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There are so many people who make their fortunes of the misfortunes of others. I don't know if it's because the world is too damn crowded, or what, but it's something that I've been noticing for awhile.
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Some souls are ennobled and elevated by seeming misfortunes, which then become blessings in disguise.
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But, alas! Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship.
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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
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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. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.
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Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
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You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
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I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.
