Misfortune Quotes

“If we are ready to re-envision our status and reclaim a sense of involvement, we can transcend immediate reality, explore new possibilities, and find meaning and direction even in the face of confusion and misfortune. ("Check, and mate”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd

“Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though his god were a petty storekeeper, counting up the day's receipts.”
― Sheri S. Tepper, The Visitor

“He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the truth of that as well as anybody. It was in those moments that he struck, after all, snatching people's lives away. He'd always known that it was only a matter of time before one of those moment's worked against him.”
― Derek Landy, Mortal Coil

“If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.”
― Solon

“Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble.”
― Honore de Balzac

“Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life”
― James De Mille, A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder

“Neither the state guards nor the municipal police stopped me. What they saw going by was no longer a man but the curious product of misfortune, something to which laws could not be applied. I had exceeded the bounds of indecency.”
― Jean Genet, The Thief's Journal

“Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.”
― Jindrich Styrsky, Emilie přichází ke mně ve snu

“... misfortune and creativity go together.”
― Cirilo F. Bautista, The House of True Desire: Essays on Life and Literature

“None of us deserve our bad fortune, but that does not stop it from coming.”
― Kat Dunn, Hungerstone

“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is “how did you end up there?” Americans, it seems, find comfort in reasons and explanations. They honestly believe that if they can find the reason for someone else’s misfortune, they can avoid that misfortune themselves. If they could find out how I ended up in the tenements, they could assure themselves that it could never have happened to them.”
― Susan Lynn Peterson, Clare

“But then again...perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I'm simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.”
― Ondrelique C. Ouellette

“When misfortune threatens, there are two ways of dealing with the situation: we may try to avoid the misfortune, or we may decide that we will meet it with fortitude. The former method is admirable where it is available without cowardice; but the latter is necessary, sooner or later, for anyone who is not prepared to be the slave of fear.”
― Bertrand Russell, In Praise of Idleness

“There is no universal yardstick for measuring unhappiness. Misfortune can only be judged in terms of the person suffering it and not in relation to others. You must put yourself in that person's place and see it from their perspective.”
― Ivan Goncharov, A Serendipitous Error and An Evil Malady

“Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Misfortune has broken my once haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; ‘tis my fate. I am alone in the world – let me suffer; can bear it.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“To the fool, a consequence is a mishap born of misfortune. As such, the fool frequently runs into the consequences that he never identifies and therefore always intensifies.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Per questo non ho scrupoli. Le anime estremamente sfortunate sono come i bambini: devono mostrarsi nude.”
― Eça de Queirós, O Mistério da Estrada de Sintra

“Misfortune and mistake after mistake arise from the first mistakes.”
― Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It was the season Ching Ming--clearness and brightness—when spirits returned from the netherworld, essences of all sorts abounded and filial sons journeyed home to their ancestral shrines to pay homage. The Wang widow, Siao lan, whose husband died on their wedding night, was on her third and final year of mourning. Her weeping-singing rent asunder the twilight calm, "O master, thou are cruel. O father, curse the day of my birth. Fate is a playful warlock. One day the fresh young bride, tomorrow, an empty-bowl widow.”
― Charlson Ong, Woman of Am-kaw and Other Stories

“I don’t make misfortunes happen. Stupid people do that. But I would call myself foolish not to take advantage of idiots.”
― Byrd Nash, Delicious Death

“Fortune, because of whom all good leaves us,
was thereupon born, and was complicit in the whole affair. She did this because of her fickleness. And I believe her to be the daughter of the devil because I do not find any writing or text—not prose, not verse—that says or proves that God, who makes all good, beneficial works out of nothing, ever formed or loved Fortune. So I believe that the devil made her, so that she would undo all good and put man in servitude, because there is no shame, damage, or misfortune that does not come to man because of Fortune (may all remember that!). And she does even greater harm to the best than to the worst, night and day. Her disruptive influence will not be short-lived; rather, her control will last until Judgment Day”
― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Mutability of Fortune (Volume 52)

“Thank you for calling the Law Firm of Sod, Murphy, and Finagle. How can we help you?”
― Wyatt B. Pringle, Jr.

“What had they done? This was the question that hung in the air above every black family that had ever run into misfortune. And not only. It was a subtext understood by so many women, of any color, who had ever been harmed. It was the question that few dared to ask out loud but many had in mind, with regard to families that struggled to pay the bills. It was the question asked by those who wishes to avoid acknowledging that responsibility might lie elsewhere. What did you do?”
― Charmaine Wilkerson, Good Dirt

“For diagnosing and healing a mental Illness properly, you shouldn't merely check Symptoms, but rather the Calamities and Misfortunes the affected Person has experienced.”
― Sino Melo

“It is not always a misfortune being overlooked.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

“Life geometry — if you seek happiness in dice, misfortune comes squared.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, Yet Another New Land

“Beezy didn’t like birthdays and she didn’t like weakness either. But my feeling is that whereas before her illness she found weakness deplorable, after the illness she found it funny. It was the sort of humor you could get out of an old-fashioned clown with open-top shoes and turned-out pockets. A humorless kind of humor. Or maybe it’s the essence of humor, maybe humor is braided with misfortune and if it’s not tragic it’s not funny.”
― Krystelle Bamford, Idle Grounds