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...