Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
Honoré de BalzacTags: worry misery anticipation misfortune worrying
If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know."
"I know," Klause said.
"I know you know," Violet said
Tags: secrets wordplay misfortune
There are people who from early on reveal a great talent for misfortune. Unhappiness pummels at them like a stoning, every other day, and they accept it with a resigned sigh. Others, meanwhile, have a peculiar propensity for the happiness. Faced with an abyss the latter are attracted by its blueness, the former by its intoxication.
José Eduardo AgualusaTags: misfortune abyss
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: life happiness enemies misfortune
Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de MontaigneTags: patience misfortune
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.
SenecaTags: sorrow suffering grief fire hardship misfortune
Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.
Napoleon HillTags: opportunity defeat misfortune
I’ve found I still serve a purpose. I remind people to pray, to calculate the odds, to thank the fates, the gods, good karma, whatever it was that made this happen to me and not them. I’m in the worst sort of club. The one no one else wants to be in.
Tracy GuzemanTags: god fate misfortune
When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.
Simon BeckettTags: misfortune dr-hunter
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life
James De MilleTags: sadness horror disappointment bereavement misfortune
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