192 Quotes About Misfortune

To place blame typically has nothing to do with some judicious effort to seek out the origins of some misfortune. Rather, it is to make certain that the origins are not sought out in ourselves.

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

Engage with reason so misfortune doesn't contend with 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.

I leaned back and glimpsed the stars, the same stories again but written in the sky.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

... misfortune and creativity go together.

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 floorand all your thrashed coasts groan

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.