192 Quotes About Misfortune

When your chips are down remember they are in God’s hands.

I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?

When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.

It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Sometimes you think you have all of tomorrow ahead of you,’ Mama often said. ‘When the sun is shinning, think of the time it won’t be, because even when you’re sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above.

Misfortune is mostly an awkwardness!

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

In Book VIII of the Odyssey we read that the gods weave misfortunes into the pattern of events to make a song for future generations to sing.----------Στην Όγδοη Ραψωδία της Οδύσσειας διαβάζουμε ότι οι θεοί κλώθουν τις συμφορές για να μη λείπουν από τις μελλούμενες γενιές θέματα για τραγούδια. (μτφ Δ. Καλοκύρης)

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.