#misfortune

It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much. I knew she could not be unmaidenly; and yet I yearned for conviction. Now I am glad!' It was a little golden thread running through the dark web of his present fortunes; which were growing ever gloomier and more gloomy. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #misfortunes #proof #love

Today, a couple with 'just married' tags collided head-on with a hearse carrying two coffins in the back, both of a married couple that had previously died in a car accident. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#bad-marriage #coffin #couple #curse #death

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#love #misfortune #trouble #age

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

— Jane Austen

#conceal #especially #knowing #misfortune #she

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

— Charles Dickens

#gratefulness #misfortunes #reflection #men

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. ↗

— Walter Anderson

#although #am #attitude #darken #happening

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#life #losses #misfortunes #sorrows #worst

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#better #character #dares #everyone #expose

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

#contemplating #happy #his #hit #indulging

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#before #comes #evil #expecting #foolish