(169 quotes found)
“Misfortune was my god.”
Arthur Rimbaud
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us”
Voltaire
“We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.”
Honore de Balzac
“Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.”
Virgil
“If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.”
Simone Weil
“Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.”
Lydia M. Child
“Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th”
Dorothy Thompson
“Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes”
Victor Hugo
“Always you have been told that work is a curse and labour a misfortune. But I say to you that when you work you fulfill a part of earth's furthest dream, assigned to you when that dream was born, and in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life...”
Kahlil Gibran
“Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to”
Paul Valery
