Quotes about Misfortune
As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.
- George Eliot
Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.
- Aristotle
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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
- Theodore Roosevelt
If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.
- Cormac McCarthy
The idea that God gives people what they deserve, that our misdeeds cause our misfortune, is a neat and attractive solution to the problem of evil at several levels, but it has a number of serious limitations. As we have seen, it teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt even where there is no basis for guilt. It makes people hate God, even as it makes them hate themselves. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.
- Harold S. Kushner
But, of course, we cannot choose. We can only try to cope. That is what one does with sorrow, with tragedy, with any misfortune. We do not try to explain it. We do not try to explain it. We do not justify it by telling ourselves that we somehow deserve it. We do not even accept it. We survive it. We recognize its unfairness and defiantly choose to go on living.
- Harold S. Kushner
Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it.
- Albert Camus
That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.
- Pascal Boyer
That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity. Mr.
- Napoleon Hill
The only cure for so much misfortune is love. It's not the force of gravity that keeps the universe in balance, but the binding power of love.
- Isabel Allende
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequence of any misfortune.
- William James