Captivity is the greatest of all evils that can befall one.
Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.
Whatever may befall us, God knows and cares as no one else can.
I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you.
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall, Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least, completely, who and what, and that we are. The greatest tragedy that can befall us is to go unimagined.
Vous eprouves trop d'emotion, Hastings, It affects your hands and your wits. Is that a way to fold a coat? And regard what you have done to my pyjamas. If the hairwash breaks what will befall them?' 'Good heavens, Poirot,' I cried, 'this is a matter of life and death. What does it matter what happens to our clothes?' 'You have no sense of proportion Hastings. We cannot catch a train earlier than the time that it leaves, and to ruin one's clothes will not be the least helpful in preventing a murder.
Maliki saw Islamic State as a way to exert pressure. If I am not re-elected, terror will befall you - that was his message.
Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.
The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.
No danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent that it may befall before there is an opportunity for full discussion. Only an emergency can justify repression.
The greatest tragedy to befall a person is to have sight but lack vision.
Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.
When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.
And I saw that truly nothing happens by accident or luck, but everything by God's wise providence. If it seems to be accident or luck from our point of view, our blindness and lack of foreknowledge is the cause; for matters that have been in God's foreseeing wisdom since before time began befall us suddenly, all unawares; and so in our blindness and ignorance we say that this is accident or luck, but to our Lord God it is not so.
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
I learned that it is possible for us to create light, sound and order within us no matter what calamity befall us in the outer world.
The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.
