misfortunes Quotes

Falling on the horns is the final accord in the symphony of family misfortunes.

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

Happiness is a pause between two misfortunes.

In relating our misfortunes, we often feel them lightened.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.

God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply an inevitable consequence of our being human and being mortal. living in a world of inflexible natural laws. The painful things that happen to us are not punishments for our misbehavior, nor are they in any way part of some grand design on God's part. Because the tragedy is not God's will, we need not feel hurt or betrayed by God when tragedy strikes. We can turn to Him for help in overcoming it, precisel

See your misfortunes as blessings.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.

Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.

There is within me a friend who consoles me every time that troubles overwhelm me and misfortunes afflict me. The man who does not feel friendship towards himself is a public enemy, and he who finds no confidant within himself will die of despair. For life streams out of man's inner self and in no way from what surrounds him.

Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that are gone by than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth.

Means at our disposal should be regarded as a bulwark against the many evils and misfortunes that can occur. We should not regard such wealth as a permission or even an obligation to<br /> procure for ourselves the pleasures of the world.

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.Ђќ MallarmГ© repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; 'tout aboutit en un livre,Ђќ everything ends up in a book. The Greeks speak of generations that will sing; MallarmГ© speaks of an object, of a thing among things, a book. But the idea is the same; the idea that we are made for art, we are made for memory, we are made for poetry, or perhaps we are made for oblivion. But something remains, and that something is

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

It is a characteristic of the weak and criminal to attribute to others the misfortunes that are the result of their own wickedness.

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

It is one of the misfortunes in life that one must read thousands of books only to discover that one need not have read them.

Your failures and misfortunes don't threaten other people. . .It's your assets and your successes that are problems for people who derive their self-esteem from being superior.

To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

There are few misfortunes in this world that you cannot turn into a personal trimuph if you have the iron will and the neccessary skill.

Pride thinks it's own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.

Many are those who pity others while being blind to their own misfortunes.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.