Quotes about Misfortune

As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.

there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, Les Miserables; whose fault is it? And then, is it not when the fall is lowest that charity ought to be greatest?

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the country.

Sounds a little like my quote for the week. Do you want to hear it? This is by Augustine: O soul, He only who created thee can satisfy thee. If thou ask for anything else, it is thy misfortune, for He alone made thee in His image can satisfy thee. That's rich, isn't it?

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

It was his misfortune to be in love with his wife; and this state of mind (in itself sufficiently ridiculous) and the shifts and compromises to which it reduced him, were a source of endless amusement to the humorists.

The house of the righteous has great treasure, but the income of the wicked is trouble.