Misfortunes Quotes

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.

We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.

We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.

Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.