#misfortune

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

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

— Peter Nivio Zarlenga

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

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#follies #history #little #mankind #misfortunes

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#destiny #fulfilling #her #ideal #maid

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence. ↗

— Herodotus

#human #influence #man #misfortune #most

I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again. ↗

— Emile Hirsch

#around #because #blue #bruise #call

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#incapable #misfortune #solitude

I'm becoming more squeamish. I didn't use to be - nine years of 'Silent Witness' prepared me for most things one will have the misfortune to see in life. Before, I'd be wading up to my neck in gore, but now I tend to look away. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#becoming #before #gore #i #life

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

#blame #condemn #disaster #fantasize #feel

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#france #i #i see #misfortune #only