Misfortunes Quotes
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Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.
Sophocles
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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.
Charles Fletcher Lummis
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Russell Baker
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Unfamiliarity lends weight to misfortune, and there was never a man whose grief was not heightened by surprise.
Seneca the Younger
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Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do.
Boyd K. Packer
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Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honore de Balzac
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During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them.
Norm MacDonald
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It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind.
Gautama Buddha