Quotes about Misfortune

Be willing to have it so; acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

We are fonder of visiting our friends in health than in sickness. We judge less favorably of their characters when any misfortune happens to them; and a lucky hit, either in business or reputation, improves even their personal appearance in our eyes.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

When the opportunity came, it appeared in a different form and from a different direction than Barnes had expected. 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.

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.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

She couldn't help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

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

Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be reshaped in its entirety by destiny and made evil because destiny is evil? Can the heart become misshapen and afflicted with ugly, incurable deformities under disproportionate misfortune, like a spinal column bent beneath a too low roof?