Quotes about Misfortune
Disease and distress need to be healed. Yet over a lifetime, the key to well-being is a person's coping skills. With poor coping skills, you become prey to every accident, setback, or disaster. with strong coping skills, you become resilient in the face of misfortune, and resilience has been shown repeatedly to be present in people who survive to great old age with a sense of fulfillment.
— Deepak Chopra
That's the story of my life; I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.
— Marilyn Monroe
A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.
— Victor Hugo
Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
— 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
Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
— Laurence Sterne
The saddest of all tragedies - the wasted life
— Aristotle