Misfortune Quotes
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Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Mon cher ami, let's not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us!!! Otherwise, we'll be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals!!
Albert Camus
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It is my greatest misfortune to be too lazy, and by the few mortifications I have already set with on that account I predict many evils in my future life. I have always the inclination to do what I ought; but by continually procrastinating for tomorrow the business of today, I insensibly delay, until at the end of one month I find myself in the same place as when I began it.
Washington Allston
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Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.
Honore de Balzac
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
Mahatma Gandhi
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...for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.
Jane Austen
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Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.
Edna Buchanan
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
Jules Verne
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.
Victor Hugo