Misfortune Quotes

Most popular misfortune quotes

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. - Euripides quote.
There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.
For a man who understandeth thoroughly the teachings which he hath received, it is the same whether he meets with good fortune or with bad fortune. - Gautama Buddha quote.
For a man who understandeth thoroughly the teachings which he hath received, it is the same whether he meets with good fortune or with bad fortune.

equanimity

It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled. - Gautama Buddha quote.
It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled.

mind

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart. - Socrates quote.
If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart.
The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortunes.

humor

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

calamity

Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter. - Francis Bacon quote.
Children sweeten labors; but they make misfortunes more bitter.

children

Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents.  But to suffer for one's own faults—ah! There is the sting of life. - Oscar Wilde quote.
Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they are accidents.  But to suffer for one's own faults—ah! There is the sting of life.

shortcomings self-destructiveness

The human heart harbors two conflicting sentiments.  Everyone of course sympathizes with people who suffer misfortunes. Yet when those people manage to overcome their misfortunes, we feel a certain disappointment.  We may even feel (to overstate the case somewhat) a desire to plunge them back into those misfortunes. And before we know it, we come (if only passively) to harbor some degree of hostility toward them.

heart

Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes. - Victor Hugo quote.
Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

heroism

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. - Edmund Burke quote.
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful

pain

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. - Euripides quote.
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

ignorance

Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Misfortunes tell us what fortune is.

proverbs

Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads. - Thomas Fuller quote.
Rich men feel misfortunes that fly over poor men's heads.

proverbs

If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him. - Samuel Johnson quote.
If a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
We all have enough strength to bear the misfortunes of others.
In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us. - François de La Rochefoucauld quote.
In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortune perfectly like a Christian. - Alexander Pope quote.
I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortune perfectly like a Christian.
Misfortunes when asleep are not to be awakened.

proverbs

To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate. - Agnes Repplier quote.
To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience. - Virgil quote.
Every misfortune is to be subdued by patience.

patience

Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. - Simone Weil quote.
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. - Virginia Woolf quote.
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.' - Marcus Aurelius quote.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. - Ben Jonson quote.
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

fortune

My pride fell with my fortunes. - William Shakespeare quote.
My pride fell with my fortunes.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote.
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

fortune

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country. - C. S. Lewis quote.
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: it is is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

fortune