Misfortune Quotes

“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.”
― Albert Camus, Summer in Algiers

“...and what creature, after all, is more precious, more attractive in the eyes of men, than the woman who has cherished, respected, and cultivated all earthly virtues, only to find, at every step, both misfortune and sorrow?”
― Marquis de Sade, Incest

“It is unwise, and potentially dangerous, to enjoy the misfortunes of others.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Some people are born under a lucky star, while others have their misfortune telegraphed by the position of the planets. Casiopea Tun, named after a constellation, was born under the most rotten star imaginable in the firmament.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Message to the Planet

“To place blame typically has nothing to do with some judicious effort to seek out the origins of some misfortune. Rather, it is to make certain that the origins are not sought out in ourselves.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It is a property of works of genius that, even when they represent vividly the nothingness of things, even when they clearly show and make you feel the inevitable unhappiness of life, even when they express the most terrible despair, nevertheless to a great soul that finds itself in a state of extreme dejection, disenchantment, nothingness, boredom and discouragement about life, or in the most bitter and deathly misfortune, such works always bring consolation, and rekindle enthusiasm, and, though they treat and represent nothing but death, they restore, albeit momentarily, the life that it had lost.”
― Giacomo Leopardi, Zibaldone

“Mistake is never a misfortune.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“You can spoil your good luck with your stupidity, but even with all the smartness in the world, you can never outrun your bad luck.”
― Shon Mehta, Stories Of Jivavarta

“Success is like a high profile person and “Struggle” is her grumpy secretary who doesn’t let you meet her easily. When you befriend “Success”, when you become worthy of her friendship, you can meet her directly.”
― Shunya

“According to some law of fuckery and bad luck, enemies always arrived at the most inconvenient time, by chance if not by design.”
― Yoon Ha Lee, Revenant Gun

“. . . calamity comes for every one of us, and assumes the shape that will be sure to hurt us most.”
― Dexter Palmer, Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen

“Trust in God! Laugh in misfortune’s face; it too will laugh.
As it laughs, it will diminish; it will be changed and transformed.”
― Master Nursi

“Those who suffer are egoistic, angry, unjust, and cruel, and less able to understand one another than really stupid people. Misfortune, far from uniting people, separates them, and even when it might be supposed that similarity of misfortune ought to bring people together, they show themselves a great deal more unjust and ruthless than do those who are comparatively content.”
― Anton Chekhov

“The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love,
The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss
or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations,
Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news,
the fitful events;
These come to me days and nights and go from me again,
But they are not the Me myself.”
― Walt Whitman

“This is the wake of my adventures and my immigrant dreams — Keep vigil with me as memories flood and plunge in and out of living nightmare carried by a propulsive current of misfortunes, losses, hopes, loves, tears, missteps, sorrows, and despairs in a journey that reveals an unknown destination and a silent quest that must be conjured and examined to make life meaningful. But is it all too late?”
― -Milan Sime Martinic, Ironway: Watching Over Benjamin Hill -

“To turn away from God in misfortune is to bring upon oneself harm a thousand times more cruel than that under which one thinks himself to be suffering. It is to reject at once all the sweetness and all the nobility of suffering.”
― Marguerite Duportal, Bearing Your Troubles Well: Your Path to Peace in Difficult Times

“His life had truly taken a turn for the worse when he had to sell his saxophone, in order to eat.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“After the adrenaline of the disaster has passed and we face the dreariness of loss, despair lurks around the corner. Unable to attribute our misfortune to random chance, we wonder what we did wrong. Homes gone, dependent on the goodwill of strangers, fearing financial ruin perhaps with loved ones killed, we look for someone to blam, we turn to the outsider. A disaster can alter the behavior of the individual, like one who is part of a mob, divorcing us from our moral compass. We must remember the most dangerous threat in a disaster is the threat to our humanity.”
― Lucy Jones, The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us and What We Can Do about Them

“The highest destiny of any individual is not in his fortune but in his misfortune”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“When we fall from a state of happiness with what impatience do we bear our misfortunes!”
― Peter Abelard, The Love Letters Of Abelard And Heloise: Translated From The Original Latin And Now Reprinted From The Edition Of 1722: Together With A Brief Account Of Their Lives And Work By Ralph Seymour

“May you never experience misfortune nor misery.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All men have faced moment of misfortune.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“[Mesnilgrand] had the gift of sarcasm. But that was not the only gift that almighty God had given him. While character was the dominant force in his constitution, wit occupied the second place and was a real strength for him to use against others. There is no doubt that if the Chevalier de Mesnilgrand had been a fortunate man, he would have been a great wit; but as an unfortunate, he had the opinions of a desperate man, and when he was in high spirits, which was rare, there was something desperate about him; and nothing will shatter the kaleidoscope of wit more readily, preventing it from twisting and casting ever new splendors, than a fixed, steady unhappiness.”
― Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Les Diaboliques - édition enrichie

“When you start normalizing bad things. Bad things will start normalizing themselves happening to you.”
― De philosopher DJ Kyos

“You are responsible for what happened to you, but you are not to blame for it. You are trying to do the best you could with the hand you were dealt. You didn’t pick the cards.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Holidays with Bigfoot

“On Ballard: 'It is no longer to fabricate the unreal from the real, the imaginary from the givens of the real. The process will, rather, be the opposite: it will be to put decentred situations, models of simulation in place and to contrive to give them the feeling of the real ... to reinvent the real as fiction. '

Artificial intelligence is an asexual activity, in which the body is only there, as Turing says, to give the 'intelligence' something to occupy itself with.

The spiritual practice of evil- sin, destiny, punishment, death - is over. The spiritual practice of crime is over. We are now in the political economy of misfortune.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Even misfortune has its advantages say the wise. Of course the wise say stupid things, because even wisdom has its foolishness, say I.”
― Angélica Gorodischer, Kalpa Imperial: The Greatest Empire That Never Was

“In letter after letter, misfortunes great and small are blamed on the wood. "I don't know how much I buy that," Matt [Smith] said.."If you're the kinda person who would take something from a national park, maybe you just have poor judgement skills.”
― Conor Knighton, Leave Only Footprints: My Acadia-to-Zion Journey Through Every National Park