The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
A. C. Benson
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.
Alphonse Karr
I think 'The Hunger Games' has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It's almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other's misfortunes for entertainment.
Amandla Stenberg
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce
Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
Amy Lowell
In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.
Aristotle
Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.
Barry Humphries
Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.
Christopher Morley
We all feel the urge to condemn ourselves out of guilt, to blame others for our misfortunes and to fantasize about total disaster.
Deepak Chopra
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.
The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.
Eliza Haywood
To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.
Epictetus
Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We all have enough strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
We are strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.
We are all strong enough to bear other men's misfortunes.
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.
Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.
A ruler of men faces two possible misfortunes: if he employs the worthy, the ministers will use worthiness as a pretext to rob their ruler of his power, but if he promotes men recklessly, his affairs will be neglected, and he will not prevail.
Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.
There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.
Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.
All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.
I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
I am disposed to be thus particular from the interest you take in our welfare and from the entire confidence I have in your knowing, that you will be sympathetic with us in our misfortunes.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
Imagine a society in which there were neither rich nor poor. What evils, afflictions, sorrows, disorders, catastrophes, disasters, tribulations, misfortunes, agonies, calamities, despair, desolation and ruin would be unknown to man!
Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.
Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her.
