Misfortune Quotes

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life. (Epicurus)
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. View quote
Washington Irving
A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can. View quote
Jane Austen
Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. View quote
Aristotle
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. View quote
Anthony Trollope
A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. View quote
Hesiod
Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. View quote
Saskya Pandita
Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer. View quote
Montesquieu
Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy. (George Washington)
Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love. View quote
Albert Camus
Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune. View quote
William James
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. View quote
Blaise Pascal
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." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. View quote
Napoleon Hill
It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training. View quote
Ulysses S. Grant
Never find your delight in another's misfortune. View quote
Publilius Syrus
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune. View quote
William Faulkner
True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention. (Franz Schubert)
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. View quote
Franz Kafka
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Victory is for them, not for us. We have not made profit out of our country's misfortune. Victory does not bring us luck. View quote
Ba Jin
To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface. View quote
Thomas Malthus