192 Quotes About Misfortune

... he could always materialise and sort things out personally. But he liked people to believe that all the bad things that happened to them were just fate and destiny. It was one of the few things that cheered him up.

People have always believed in miracles... It's in their nature to believe things can always get better in some mysterious way. If everything else fails, higher forces will help them when the time comes. And people do that because they know the very essence of life is...that from the very beginning, at any point...everything can go wrong.

I no longer believe that people are born without virtue. It gets beaten out. Misfortune threshes our souls as a flail threshes wheat, and the lightest parts of ourselves are scattered to the wind.

When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.

You know you're prepared for what's next in life when the possibility of misfortune is at your door and it doesn't matter whether or not it knocks. You see, I don't see things as others see them. I don't see things as I am. I see things as they can be as I grow intentionally.

I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.

When we fall from a state of happiness with what impatience do we bear our misfortunes!

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

You are responsible for what happened to you, but you are not to blame for it. You are trying to do the best you could with the hand you were dealt. You didn’t pick the cards.