Misfortune proverbs

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◆ Do not blame your misfortune when your miss your goal, blame the strength of your decisions instead.

- John Elwin98

◆ Embrace happiness and you will never feel helplessness, haplessness and hopelessness.

- Tasneem Hameed98

◆ Death always knew how to connect vice with misfortune.

- Jindrich Styrsky98

◆ A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.

- William Faulkner98

◆ We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

- Marjane Satrapi98

◆ To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ Fortune and misfortune are two buckets in the same well

- German Proverb98

◆ I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others

- Edmund Burke98

◆ Look at misfortune the same way you look at success - Don't Panic! Do you best and forget the consequences.

- Walt Alston98

◆ If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart

- Solon98

◆ Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

- William McFee98

◆ Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, may be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.

- Dorothy Parker98

◆ We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

- Honore De Balzac98

◆ Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

- Victor Hugo98

◆ Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

- Lydia M Child98