Misfortune Quotes

“For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of misfortune is to have been happy.”

“They've taken my place; they've taken my money; they've taken my mistress! What have I left?”

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One must laugh at one's own misfortunes.”

“How often, from the most promising beginnings, have we seen the most unfortunate events!”

“The causes of failure are not due to faulty organisation, but to misfortune in all risks which had to be undertaken.”

“The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.”

“Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all possible misfortunes is generally followed by a much greater.”

“Fortune, in a word, from that day, seemed to be conspiring against me.”

“Farsightedness is the cause of all the misfortunes of men.”

“No loyalty ever chose the unfortunate for its friends.”

“How's life treating you, Norm?”

“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”

“The cup of our misfortunes was not yet full, but was overflowing with a drop or two.”

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.”

“I am beginning to believe that I was born under an evil star.”