There is something beautiful in every person that never dies, no matter their misfortunes.

We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

Here’s a new ‘Blessing’ for our time — ‘May Anderson Cooper never be sent to report on your town!

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

Opportunity…it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune meansan acid test of friendship.I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but...

I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not...

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless...

I’m as lucky as a bed of oysters on cioppino night.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know,” Violet said, “and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn’t know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn’t know what...

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to him, a hex, a curse, a punishment by his deity for some transgression, as though...

Blessed be they whose lives do not taste of evilbut if some god shakes your houseruin arrivesruin does not leaveit comes tolling over the generationsit comes rolling the black night salt up from the ocean...

But then again…perhaps the whole human race is cursed, and I’m simply in the lower echelon and therefore lose everything first.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

Honour him, dear Symparanekromenoi, for his grey hair and his misfortune.

Who you are, how you act and present yourself to others and your deep inner-truths are calling fortune or misfortune into your life right now.

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

Dread was always with her, an alarm system in her head, alertto her next disaster.Despite being resigned to a life of misfortune, she becameresourceful.She grudgingly noticed that things always worked out, evenwhen she claimed defeat.An...

Obsessing over something that has jarred your world is called coping.

Our way of thinking causes us more pain than all our misfortunes.

It would be ridiculous to hold your breath and blame others for your inability to breathe. In the same sense, it is ridiculous to live an unaligned life and blame God for your misfortune.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Mike nodded. A sombre nod. The nod Napoleon might have given if somebody had met him in 1812 and said, “So, you’re back from Moscow, eh?

The damage and casualty situation right now looks as if we have had some good fortune in the midst of this misfortune,

You may think you’ve hit rock bottom in your life but guess what—there’s more crud underneath those rocks.

If the sky falls, there’ll be a bigger sky behind it.

It was just misfortune and we are still perplexed by what happened.

Oh, what a misfortune is mine, cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, “”that I cannot so control myself as to appear a...

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their...

And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though...

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to...

Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or...

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness...

Beware! Balance rules the cosmos. It is not concerned with good or bad. You can be struck by misfortune and be buried in grief if that is what it takes to restore the imbalance you...

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.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

History is indeed more than the register of crime,folilies and misfortune of mankind.

Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Never find your delight in another’s misfortune

Today, a couple with ‘just married’ tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previouslydied in a car accident.