The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

To be fair, I don’t think it’s a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

Where we see the same faults followed regularly by the same misfortunes, we may reasonably think that if we could have known the first we might have avoided the others.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Arrows you may dodge and fever you may antibody for, but mortal grief is a misfortune you cannot escape.

The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

There were moments when I hated everybody I came across, innocent or guilty, and looked at them as thieves who were robbing me of my life with impunity. The most unbearable misfortune is when you yourself become unjust, malignant, vile; you realize it, you even reproach yourself – but you just can’t help it.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortune 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.

I am now considered such a monster, that I hesitate to darken with my shadow, the doors of those I love, lest I should bring upon them misfortune.

My appeal to the rich is, deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Reflect upon your present blessings — of which every man has many — not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Reflect upon your present blessings—of which every man has many—not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some

No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man’s desire… The world’s frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

Of fortune’s sharp adversity, the worst kind of misfortune is this, that a man hath been in prosperity and it remembers when it passed is.

Misfortunes never come singly

If Gladstone fell in the Thames, that would be a misfortune. But if someone fished him out again, that would be a calamity.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.