192 Quotes About Misfortune

One day you're the hammer, the next day the nail.

-Marty Rubin

  • Author Ivo Andrić
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    But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

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But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

-Ivo Andrić

The storm that is coming is indifferent to your prayers.

-Marty Rubin

  • Author José Eduardo Agualusa
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    There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other day, and they accept it with a resigned sigh. Others, meanwhile, have a peculiar propensity for the happiness. Faced with an abyss the latter are attracted by its blueness, the former by its intoxication.

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There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other day, and they accept it with a resigned sigh. Others, meanwhile, have a peculiar propensity for the happiness. Faced with an abyss the latter are attracted by its blueness, the former by its intoxication.

-José Eduardo Agualusa

One misfortune may be chance; two might be divine punishment. Three is a plan.

-Catherynne M. Valente

Don’t just accept bad luck or misfortune as inevitable fate. Destiny is mostly the result of living your life by design.

-Anthon St. Maarten

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.

-P.G. Wodehouse

... in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.

-David Rain

The highest destiny of any individual is not in his fortune but in his misfortune

-P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

 

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