Misfortune Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“We have all of us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others.”

“Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.”

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above it.”

“Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.”

“Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.”

“When once misfortune enters a house, silence is in vain.”

“Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.”