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It is only the surprise and newness of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by premeditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight.
A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune.
The Sorrow and the Pity,
The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.
If misfortune finds us, it will not find a home among us, for our hearts will give it no berth, as we birth the fortunes, misfortune missed.
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.
When something is detestable, and yet inevitable, what one must do is not merely to endure it-a hard task whatever one may do-but find an excuse for loving it. Everything is a matter of points of view, and misfortune is often only the sign of a false interpretation of life.
Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love.
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ...
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made.
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
One is a punishment and the other is a misfortune
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.
I'm a fruit of misfortune.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
What Cicero said of men-that they are like wines, age souring the bad, and bettering the good-we can say of misfortune, that it has the same effect upon them.
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.
Fate had cruel timing.
terrible fates are inevitable
Do not detest the misfortunes that befall you, for what you detest may be the cause of your salvation and what you like may be the cause of your ruin.
There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.
Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune.
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.
Misfortune simply is. And when you wall it off, you do not have a clear conscience, because perhaps you are supposed to dedicate all your efforts and all your attention to it. And all you can say in your own defense is 'I want to live.
Misfortunes shared creates happiness.
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy.
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.
What at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.
Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory.
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.
Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.
There is only one real misfortune: to forfeit one's own good opinion of oneself. Lose your complacency, once betray your own self-contempt and the world will unhesitatingly endorse it.
When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
The most fortunate of us all in our journey through life frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which greatly afflict us. To fortify our minds against the attacks of these calamities and misfortunes should be one of the principal studies and endeavors of our lives.
Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish)
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.
... misfortune and creativity go together.
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it.
For whatever reason, be it the work of evil or pure chance, misfortune comes, but even with such misfortune God will knit something from which we might learn and be blessed. Of that you can be sure.
The size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider's measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.
But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error."
"What do you call the unforgivable error?"
"Overlooking the obvious.!
Real misfortune is not just a matter of being hungry and thirsty; it is a matter of knowing that there are people who want you to be hungry and thirsty
I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.
All men can bear a familiar, definite misfortune better than the cruel alternations of a fate which, from one moment to another, brings excessive joy or sorrow.
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?
sorrow and despair. All too many
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Misfortunes never come singly.
At least we're companions in misfortune
The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men.
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries.
If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention.
She suffered much from the adjacent presence of her daughter-in-law, whose misfortune it was to become disagreeable when she was unhappy
perhaps the heaviest curse that can be laid on man, who is born to sorrow.
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream.
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent.
Fate, suffering, changing, expected outcomes, killing dreams, rupturing hearts and hopes, Fate blanks the disappointment in my chest with suffering, then slaps me right across the face with it.
What is more miserable than discontent?
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune.
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things ...
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.
Never find your delight in another's misfortune.
Fate was cruel, but it was fate.
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)
There are disappointments which wring us, and there are those which inflict a wound whose mark we bear to our graves. Such are so keen that no future gratification of the same desire can ever obliterate them: they become registered as a permanent loss of happiness.
Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards.
Misfortune may become fortune through patience.
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny.
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity.
A miserable person always attracts miseries, but a joyful person seems to find joy in miseries.
Lack of knowledge is the
source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted
or fully active.
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
What woe is lacking to my tale of woes?
The misfortune of our time is just this, that it has become simply nothing else but 'time', the temporal, which is impatient of hearing anything about eternity.
Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well.
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again.
The authors of all our misfortune.
Fate...may...be...thwarted.
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.
Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.
Mistrust of good success hath done this deed.
O hateful error, Melancholy's child,
Why dost thou show to the apt thoughts of men
The things that are not? O Error, soon concieved,
Thou never com'st unto a happy birth,
But kill'st the mother that engendered thee.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
by indignities men come to dignities
Trouble is another word for fate; what troubles us the most is what we are fated to one day face. What troubles us in youth will return at each crossroad in life because it secretly seeks to provoke a deep awakening to the unique way that we are intended to live.
No calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason.
Success tempts many to their ruin.