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“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
William Faulkner“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”
William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury“When Americans find out I grew up in the tenements, the question they invariably ask me is “how did you end up there?” Americans, it seems, find comfort in reasons and explanations. They honestly believe that if they can find the reason for someone else’s misfortune, they can avoid that misfortune themselves. If they could find out how I ended up in the tenements, they could assure themselves that it could never have happened to them.”
Susan Lynn Peterson, Clare“Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.”
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein“We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.”
La Rochefoucauld“Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.”
Czech proverb“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.”
Washington Irving“Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”
James Russell Lowell“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”
Alphonse Karr“When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.”
Maurice Maeterlinck, Pelleas and Melisande“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”
Franz Kafka