#misfortune

Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#grief #hardship #misfortune #sorrow #suffering

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it. Sadness, whether it be from bereavement, or disappointment, or misfortune of any kind may linger on through life ↗

— James De Mille

#disappointment #horror #misfortune #sadness #life

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#fortune #good #good fortune #kinds #misfortunes

Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune? ↗

— Elias Canetti

#disaster #even #every #eyes #into

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #misfortunes #only #register

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#early #life #misfortune #necessary #only

Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

#boldly #fortune #meet #misfortunes #more

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. ↗

— Simone Weil

#day #else #false #got #illness

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#easy #had #hardening #her #instead

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

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

#man #measure #measure of a man #misfortune #under