#misfortunes

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

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#hearer #journey #laugh #misfortunes #nothing

France cannot be destroyed. She is an old country who, despite her misfortunes, has, and always will have, thanks to her past, a tremendous prestige in the world, whatever the fate inflicted upon her. ↗

— Pierre Laval

#cannot #country #despite #destroyed #fate

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. ↗

— George Mason

#convince #experience #few #greatest #happened

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#full #happened #life #misfortunes #most

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#children #labours #make #misfortunes #more

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. ↗

— Lucius Accius

#fame #his #indeed #makes #man

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided. ↗

— Alphonse Karr

#avoided #composed #misfortunes

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes. ↗

— Voltaire

#history #indeed #misfortunes #more #nothing

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain. ↗

— Euripides

#gain #ignorance #misfortunes