Misfortune Quotes
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In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise -
Misfortune sprinkles ashes on the head of the man, but falls like dew on the heart of the woman, and brings forth gems of strength of which she herself had no conscious possession.
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 -
This misfortune you find is of your own manufacture. Keep hold of what you have, it will harm no other, for hatred comes home to the hand that chose it.
Simon Armitage -
Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on.
Anna Cora Mowatt -
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Soren Kierkegaard -
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Bias of Priene -
For marriage is the worst misfortune!
Antiphanes
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Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Jonathan Swift -
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
Margaret Mitchell -
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil -
... 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 -
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 -
...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.
Martin Luther -
Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Nicholas Ling -
.. 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 -
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Alexandre Dumas -
In other countries poverty is a misfortune - with us it is a crime.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton