Misfortune Quotes

“I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.”
― Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound

“You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am.
I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed.
Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?”
― Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

“It never really ends...
Children surviving through the cold winds of neglect, and all kinds of misfortune and vile treatment.We see them everyday, with broken smiles that endure the painful kicking of their malnourished bellies protruded with dreams that may never see the light of conception...
But with just a little kind word,
A handful of promise,
A heart of compassion,
A smile full of hope,
We would hold hands together in helping them conceive their dreams...
Because they are the little bits and pieces that make us whole...”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.”
― Aesop

“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.”
― Czesław Miłosz, Milosz's ABC's

“Little by little they all gathered around him, entering through the cracks like moonbeams...[b]ut once the wind of misfortune blows, people disperse like little clouds around the moon when the wind blows off the mountains.”
― Grazia Deledda, Reeds in the Wind

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change. This is why Aristotle says: It is not wealth but character that lasts.
And just for the same reason we can more easily bear a misfortune which comes to us entirely from without, than one which we have drawn upon ourselves; for fortune may always change, but not character. Therefore, subjective blessings — a noble nature, a capable head, a joyful temperament, bright spirits, a well-constituted, perfectly sound physique, in a word, mens sana in corpore sano, are the first and most important elements in happiness; so that we should be more intent on promoting and preserving such qualities than on the possession of external wealth and external honor.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena

“The Bible, after all, repeatedly speaks of God as the special protector of the poor, the widow, and the orphan, without
raising the question of how it happened that they became poor, widowed, or orphaned in the first place.”
― Harold S. Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People

“Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“She couldn’t help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,”
― Tamera Alexander, To Win Her Favor

“Sometimes misfortune brings opportunity”
― Jocelyn Murray, The English Pirate

“Even at such a tender age, I knew that life is lived in leftovers, account ledgers, and timetables rather than in the Platonic sphere of perfect theory. I couldn't float sylphlike around Love Hall in the flowing robes of indeterminacy for the rest of my life, however much I wished there to be no change. I had to accept my responsibilities and, at least in the eyes of the world and at least for the time being, nail my colors to a mast. Unless I wished to appear a strange wonder for the rest of time, caked in circus makeup covering the truth inches beneath, the mast would be male.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.”
― Christine de Pizan, The Selected Writings of Christine de Pizan

“When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.”
― Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas And Melisande

“People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back. They know only too well that misfortune follows in their wake.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“When the two become the one
And the inside outside, the outside in
So that the male be not male nor the female female
Then will you see me.”
― Wesley Stace

“I had tried, as best I could, to forget the people who had said they loved me, and I had been able to do so only by replacing their memory with hatred for them and their crimes. Time is no healer. It scabs the wound until the injury is forgotten, but the infection festers, eating away, spreading.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

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

“Don't let the mist of circumstances block your imagination and stop you from making new beginnings.”
― Balroop Singh, When Success Eludes...A Step by Step Guide To Success

“Don't say I'm lucky. Ever.”
― Faith Erin Hicks, The Nameless City

“From the third case, she took yet more books, but these were the traveling books that she had brought for her new ward: they were at once sterner and more reassuring that the others. She cared for for these, too- they were books after all, and she would sooner have her own spine broken than manhandle a book - but not with the same devotion, and they were placed in a neat pile on the floor.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“I was breathing life into the book through my hand, and the book was breathing back out through me into the world. And what was a book but leather? And what was leather but animal skin? And what was paper but a tree, and vellum but lamb? And what was I but an idea?”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“Everything would turn out exactly the same, and I would return here for a second time, and then, if I was fool enough, a third time, waiting, as now, for my other to touch the canvas. And it would be progressively worse, because though I would know slightly more each time, I would still be powerless to change my fate. Perhaps I would be unaware of the previous decision, yet choose again to come back. Or worse, I would become aware that I was inadvertently repeating the same mistake for a horrific split second just after I made the decision. Infinity was terrifying. Its abyss makes my skin crawl.”
― Wesley Stace, Misfortune

“The main reason of fear of failure lies in people’s being unaware of the impact of misfortune on achieving success”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Pray for God's mercy in the moment of misfortune.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Every misfortune is a fortune.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita