Quotes about Misfortune

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

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.

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.

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

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

The one at ease scorns misfortune as the fate of those whose feet are slipping.

If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—

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

But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

When God supports us, illness is no misfortune, especially when we get new ideas and new intentions in those days of illness that would not have come to us if what not been ill, and when we achieve clearer faith and stronger trust in God.

Failure results from bad breaks.

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!