Misfortune Quotes - page 12

There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them. (Julia Ward Howe)
There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. View quote
Julia Ward Howe
One in particular, whose warped will it ever was even in the upper world (hence his life ended ill) to insult misfortune and wax sour at prosperity. View quote
Statius
Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrows good luck. View quote
Og Mandino
Those who wander in the world avowedly and purposely in pursuit of happiness, who view every scene of present joy with an eye to what may succeed, certainly are more liable to disappointment, misfortune and unhappiness, than those who give up their fate to chance and take the goods and evils of fortune as they come, without making happiness their study, or misery their foresight. View quote
Frances Burney
It seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, even if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune. View quote
Edith Wharton
The story of Rachel's unique illness was no secret in Crawford, of course. The fact of it had spread through the college the first year of Rachel's return and the entire town knew soon after. Crawford reacted in the fashion of small towns immemorial-some tongues wagged constantly, some people could not keep the pity and pleasure at someone else's misfortune out of their voices and gazes-but mostly the community had folded its protective wings around the Weintraub family like an awkward mother bird shielding its young. View quote
Dan Simmons
It is one of the more subtly tragic aspects of his death, a misfortune not only to a fecund mind that needed free utterance, but to a country which is nearly starved for thought, that he should in these last years have been doomed to silence. He who should have spoken for them-and who might still have spoken for them-went down to the grave voiceless. View quote
Randolph Bourne
Then legionaries wrote down several maxims I collected either from the Gospels or from other writings. They embelished our walls. Here are some of them: "God carries us on His victorious chariot." "Whoever wins.... I shall be his God." "He who does not have a sword, let him sell his cloak and buy one." "Fight bravely for faith." "Avoid carnal pleasures, for they kill the soul." "Be vigilant." "Do not destroy the hero that is in you." "Brothers in fortune... as in misfortune." "Whoever knows how to die, will never be a slave." View quote
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
If you do not pray to God, what is that to Him? It is only your misfortune. View quote
Sarada Devi
The principle underpinning the EU is not "We, the people" but "We know better than the people" - not just on capital punishment and the single currency, but on pretty much anything that comes to mind. Not so long ago, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, France's Defence Minister at the time, insisted that the United States was dedicated to the "organized cretinization of our people." As a dismissal of American pop culture - MTV, Disney - this statement is not without its appeal, though it sounds better if you've never had the misfortune to sit through a weekend of continental television. But the reality is that nobody is as dedicated to the proposition that the people are cretins than M. Chevenement and the panjandrums of the new 'Europe.' The EU is organized on this assumption. If, like the Danes and now the Irish, they're impertinent enough to tick the wrong box in referenda on deeper European integration, we'll just keep asking and re-asking the question until they get it right. (Mark Steyn)
(About the battle of Kunersdorf) "I shall not survive this cruel misfortune. The consequences will be worse than defeat itself. I have no resources left, and, to speak quite frankly I believe everything is lost. I shall not outlive the downfall of my country. Farewell, forever!" View quote
Frederick II of Prussia
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. View quote
Albert Camus
Mon cher ami, lets not give them any pretext, no matter how small, for judging us Otherwise, well be left in shreds. We are forced to take the same precautions as the animal trainer. If, before going into the cage, he has the misfortune to cut himself while shaving, what a feast for the wild animals. View quote
Albert Camus
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood. View quote
Grover Cleveland
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune. View quote
Bias of Priene
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice. View quote
Harry Browne
Misfortune is a fact of nature acceptable to women, especially when it falls on other women. View quote
John Steinbeck
For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune. View quote
Aeschylus
Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. View quote
Boris Pasternak
Nigeria has had the misfortune - no, the fortune - of seeing the worst face of capitalism anywhere in Africa. The masses have seen it, they are disgusted, and they want an alternative. (Wole Soyinka)
I might have been your happiness, and became your misfortune. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
If it be a great misfortune to love another man's wife, be she ever so commonplace, it is an infinitely greater misfortune to love a virtuous woman. View quote
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The measure of a man is way he bears up under misfortune. View quote
Plutarch
Pain may be said to follow pleasure, as its shadow but the misfortune is, that the substance belongs to the shadow, and the emptiness to its cause. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton