Misfortune Quotes
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Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.
Miguel de Cervantes
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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
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The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.
Herodotus
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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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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise
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... 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.
Marcel Proust
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Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Anna Cora Mowatt
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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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.. I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world.
Ernst Junger
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...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
Martin Luther
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Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Nicholas Ling
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I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
Margaret Mitchell
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For marriage is the worst misfortune!
Antiphanes
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You are one of those obsessed demoniacal creatures who ought to be avoided at all costs; they bring misfortune into the lives of others; they ruin the lives of others. The real good people are humble and silent (like your Kitty is). But beware, God sees all vanity and pride and you cannot fool him.
Svetlana Alliluyeva
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I wasn't raised to celebrate the misfortune of others.
Nikki Gil
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Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Jonathan Swift
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Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil
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What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Alexandre Dumas
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In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton