Misfortune Quotes

“I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.”
― Danielle Teller, All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

“When I was young I lived a constant storm,
Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through,
So in my garden few red fruits were born,
The rain and thunder had so much to do.

- The Enemy”
― Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du Mal

“People have always believed in miracles... It's in their nature to believe things can always get better in some mysterious way. If everything else fails, higher forces will help them when the time comes. And people do that because they know the very essence of life is...that from the very beginning, at any point...everything can go wrong.”
― Fábio Moon, Daytripper

“Bad things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to okay people. Bad things happen to everyone.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Refrigerator Monologues

“Because misfortune does not wait idly by until we are prepared for it.”
― Danielle Teller, All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother

“Illness affects everybody and alters relationships. When we receive grim medical news regarding a loved one, whom do we cry for first, for the injured party or for our own loss? The closer an ill person is to us, the more difficult it is to view their plight primarily in terms of their own misfortune. When a person we love suffers, we suffer as a collective group; we each bear part of the emotional pain.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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

“As a child, I cried because I had no toy until I met a child who had no bread.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“You know you're prepared for what's next in life when the possibility of misfortune is at your door and it doesn't matter whether or not it knocks. You see, I don't see things as others see them. I don't see things as I am. I see things as they can be as I grow intentionally.”
― Jeffrey G. Duarte

“As to everyone on whom I placed my hand, no misfortune ever befell him, because my heart was sealed and my counsel excellent. But as to any fool, any wretch, who stands up in opposition. I shall give according as he gives. “O woe,” will be said of one who is accused by me, his will take water like a boat. For I am a champion without peer!

THE FIRST PART OF THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ANKHTIFI”
― Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms

“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

“The exquisite sorrows with which they had been afflicted, made them think lightly of every succeeding woe. They had felt the sharpest darts in misfortune's quiver; Those which remained appeared blunt in comparison. Having weathered Fate's heaviest Storms, they looked calmly upon its terrors: or if ever they felt Afflictions casual gales, they seemed to them gentle as Zephyrs, which breathe over summer-seas.”
― Matthew Lewis, The Monk

“Misfortune never comes alone. It's surrounded by bodyguards.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“...the world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willingly avoids the sight of distress.”
― W Somerset Maugham, Moon and Sixpence

“Nesreća je za čoveka što ostavlja iza sebe noć kojoj je on dao oblik.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“No matter what life throws at you, don't become jaded or cynical. Love is worth the risk.”
― Wayne Gerard Trotman

“Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two--a schism or a death, a fire or a mutiny, the loss of a home or the destruction of a tea set.”
― Lemony Snicket

“Inspiration gives us courage to keep going in the face of illness, misfortune, and loss.”
― Dee Waldeck

“... he could always materialise and sort things out personally. But he liked people to believe that all the bad things that happened to them were just fate and destiny. It was one of the few things that cheered him up.”
― Terry Pratchett, Eric

“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

“Challenge makes you aware of your strengths as you are forced to fight back.
Misfortune’s light shines on your weaker attributes, but this light is hardly ethereal or godlike. It can be an out of control fire that illuminates the demons you hide within yourself.”
― Kristin Michelle Elizabeth

“Au Rwanda, comme dans le reste du monde, le Malheur tisse inlassablement la trame de la vie humaine : la mort frappe les petits enfants, la peste décime les vaches, la sécheresse provoque la famine, la guerre ravage les collines. Bien sûr, on voudrait savoir d’où provient le Malheur et surtout qui nous l’envoie. Les suspects sont nombreux.”
― Scholastique Mukasonga, Ce que murmurent les collines

“We all fulfill our quota of misfortune at some point in our life. This is what I believed as a ten-year-old. It was a belief system of my own creation, part of a silent theory based on fairness and balance. I believed that some reached their quota early and advanced to a life of access and abundance, while others had beginnings filled with open doors and opportunities until they were met with their share of misfortune.”
― janet mock

“Another human's adversity lends us perspective and leads to a diminution of our own exaggerated misfortunes.”
― Nikhil Ramteke, The 365 Days

“Whatever has been done, can never be undone.
And through all of this misfortune, I was the one to get the stain of guilt, the gross wound.”
― Mouna Saadallah, Because I was born as a Military Child

“Sad was the Hour, and luckless was the Day.

- Eclogue the Second: Hassan; or the Camel-driver”
― William Collins, Gray and Collins: Poetical Works

“Toute ma vie, j’avais cru que nous étions poursuivies par la malchance, sous forme de mauvais temps, de désastres, de catastrophes naturelles et de pure méchanceté humaine. Et si tout ce temps, nous étions en réalité poursuivies par l’Hinterland ?”
― Melissa Albert, The Hazel Wood

“It's with a heavy heart that I assure you that regardless of how lasting your fortune feels, it can be taken from you before you can even think to try to hold on.”
― Daniel V Chappell

“It's fictitious to believe that we can intuitively navigate misfortune with the inherent skills we've come into the world with.”
― Daniel V Chappell

“Misfortune may pave the path to fortune, with Faith.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita