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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. -- Seneca The Younger
A disaster wrapped in a catastrophe sitting on a pile of misfortune. -- Tracy Brogan
The Sorrow and the Pity, -- Charles Kaiser
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. -- Emil Cioran
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. -- Ambrose Bierce
You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you. -- Euripides
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. -- Tom Althouse
Fate finds for every man; his share of misery. -- Euripides
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. -- Henry De Montherlant
Your fortune is misfortune if it is not Love. -- Silent Lotus
Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt. -- Jonathan Swift
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair ... -- Martin Seligman
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another. -- Aeschylus
Grief was for the others; sorrow and pain were for the others; some terrible mistake had been made. -- John Cheever
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. -- Jean De La Bruyere
One is a punishment and the other is a misfortune -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. -- Stendhal
I'm a fruit of misfortune. -- Nely Cab
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune. -- Henry David Thoreau
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. -- Jean Paul
Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow. -- Publilius Syrus
Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones. -- Jacques Roumain
It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies. -- Publilius Syrus
Fate had cruel timing. -- Dan Brown
terrible fates are inevitable -- Shaun Tan
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. -- Al-Hasan Al-Basri
There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. -- Haruki Murakami
Your persistent problems are because of your response to common misfortune. -- Bryant Mcgill
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. -- Phineas Quimby
What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is. -- Soren Kierkegaard
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. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Misfortunes shared creates happiness. -- Victor Hugo
That is a most wretched fortune which is without an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus
Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
What at first had seemed to be no more than a small bump in the road was turned into a full-scale misfortune -- Paul Auster
Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure. -- Joseph Addison
Misfortune is the best fortune.
Rejection by all is victory. -- Valmiki
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. -- George Washington
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. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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. -- Thomas Mann
When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune. -- Napoleon Hill
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. -- Thomas Jefferson
Fate being unfavorable( or without god's grace, even an easy task becomes difficult to accomplish) -- Chanakya
Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy. -- Seneca The Younger
... misfortune and creativity go together. -- Cirilo F. Bautista
Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes. -- Bertolt Brecht
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. -- Anne Mccaffrey
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. -- Michael N. Richard
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. -- Mark Twain
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.! -- Agatha Christie
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 -- Ousmane Sembene
I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe. -- Seneca.
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. -- Honore De Balzac
Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view? -- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
sorrow and despair. All too many -- Diana Gabaldon
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time. -- Napoleon Hill
Misfortunes never come singly. -- Anne Frank
At least we're companions in misfortune -- Dodie Smith
The kind of trouble that was the downfall of many men. -- Maya Rodale
Misfortune does not help us to believe. -- Alexandre Dumas
Misery misery son of a bitch of all miseries. -- Walker Percy
If you accept your misfortune and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst to profound reinvention. -- Conan O'brien
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. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate. -- Virgil
Misfortune, no less than happiness, inspires us to dream. -- Honore De Balzac
Fortunately, we can take in only so much misfortune; what exceeds that limit either destroys us or leaves us indifferent. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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. -- Yellowbella
What is more miserable than discontent? -- William Shakespeare
Nothing is as heady as the wine of misfortune. -- Honore De Balzac
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 ... -- Katharine Whitehorn
My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question. -- Henrietta Szold
Never find your delight in another's misfortune. -- Publilius Syrus
Fate was cruel, but it was fate. -- Edward Rutherfurd
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. -- George Eliot
No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf) -- Jeffrey R. Holland
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. -- Thomas Hardy
Misfortune never comes singly. It's surrounded by bodyguards. -- Ljupka Cvetanova
Misfortune may become fortune through patience. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. -- Sophocles
Bad luck and (extreme) misfortune will infest your pathetic soul for all eternity. -- Rocko
A miserable person always attracts miseries, but a joyful person seems to find joy in miseries. -- Debasish Mridha
Lack of knowledge is the
source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted
or fully active. -- B.k.s. Iyengar
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. -- Samuel Johnson
What woe is lacking to my tale of woes? -- Sophocles
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Fate can be tricky and troublesome when not managed well. -- Steven Redhead
Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain That has been, and may be again. -- William Wordsworth
The authors of all our misfortune. -- Jefferson Davis
Fate...may...be...thwarted. -- Gail Carson Levine
Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels. -- Joseph Addison
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune. -- Albert Camus
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. -- William Shakespeare
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. -- Agnes Repplier
by indignities men come to dignities -- Francis Bacon
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. -- Michael Meade
No calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot; -- Lao-Tzu
There is no greater misfortune in the world than the loss of reason. -- Mikhail Bulgakov
Success tempts many to their ruin. -- Phaedrus
