Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling.
The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.
No misfortune is worse than underestimating the enemy. Underestimating the enemy, I risk losing my treasure.
The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.
Misfortune nobly born is good fortune.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
The greatest misfortune of all is not to be able to bear misfortune.
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.
Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
The memory of man is as old as misfortune
We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
The arrogance of some Christians would close heaven to them if, to their misfortune, it existed.
It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.
I have had a great misfortune; my dear old dog is dead.