Misfortunes Quotes - Page 11

• A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Arte, Creer, Hombres

  Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (2009). “Seven Nights”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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• It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone's malignity.

  Bertrand Russell

  Natural, Attributes, Propensity

  Bertrand Russell (2004). "Ensayos escépticos", p.113, Psychology Press

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• Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, People, Monsters

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• A person who sets his or her mind on the dark side of life, who lives over and over the misfortunes and disappointments of the past, prays for similar misfortunes and disappointments in the future. If you will see nothing but ill luck in the future, you are praying for such ill luck and will surely get it. (Prentice Mulford)

  Rhonda Byrne

  Disappointment, Dark, Past

  Rhonda Byrne (2008). “The Secret”, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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• No se oyó el portazo; probablemente la habían dejado abierta, como es costumbre en los hogares donde ha ocurrido una gran desgracia.

  Franz Kafka

  Home, Doors, Metamorphosis

  Franz Kafka Stanley Corngold (1981). "La Metamorfosis", Bantam Classics

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• Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Arrows, Example, Target

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• I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Mistake, Boys, Thinking

  Louisa May Alcott (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated)”, p.5058, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can’t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?" Vronksy

  Leo Tolstoy

  Thinking, Giving, Despair

  Leo Tolstoy (2016). “ANNA KARENINA – Two Unabridged Translations in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): The Greatest Romantic Tragedy of All Times from the Renowned Author of War and Peace & The Death of Ivan Ilyich (Including Biographies of the Author)”, p.230, e-artnow

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• Atra gulai un ilian tauthr ono un atra ono waise skolir fra rauthr. - Let luck and happiness follow you and may you be shielded from misfortune.

  Christopher Paolini

  Luck, May

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• What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Men, Want, Be Kind

  Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent on the Moor”, p.222, MIRA

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• Érase una vez una reina gitana que llevaba en la muñeca una cadena de seis amuletos de la suerte: una corona de oro, un caballo de plata, una mariposa atrapada en ámbar, una concha de ojo de gato, un rayo forjado con el corazón de una estrella fugaz y la flor de la ruda, hierba de la gracia. La reina regaló a cada uno de sus seis hijos uno de los amuletos como talismán de la suerte, pero desde que se rompió la cadena de amuletos, los gitanos se vieron acosados por la desgracia.

  Kate Forsyth

  Caballo, Reinas, Estrellas

  Kate Forsyth (2007). "La corona gitana: Chain of Charms 1", Pan Australia

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• Ninguno de nosotros pasa por esta vida sin problemas y retos, y a veces tragedias y desgracias. Después de todo, en gran parte estamos aquí para aprender y crecer a partir de tales acontecimientos en nuestras vidas. Sabemos que habrá momentos en los que sufriremos, nos afligiremos y nos entristeceremos. Sin embargo, se nos dice: "Adán cayó para que los hombres sean; y los hombres son, para que tengan alegría". ¿Cómo podríamos tener alegría en nuestras vidas, a pesar de todo lo que podamos enfrentar? De nuevo de las Escrituras: "Por tanto, tened buen ánimo y no temáis, porque yo el Señor estoy con vosotros y estaré a vuestro lado".

  Thomas S. Monson

  Animo, Hombres, Duelo

  "Sé de buen ánimo". Charla de Thomas S. Monson, www.lds.org. Abril de 2009.

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• What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

  Alejandro Dumas

  Illumination, Clouds, Light

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• El hábito de encontrar placer en el pensamiento más que en la acción es una salvaguardia contra la imprudencia y el amor excesivo al poder, un medio de preservar la serenidad en la desgracia y la paz de espíritu entre las preocupaciones. Una vida confinada a lo que es personal es probable que, tarde o temprano, se vuelva insoportablemente dolorosa; sólo mediante ventanas a un cosmos más amplio y menos inquieto las partes más trágicas de la vida se vuelven soportables.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mean, Worry, Serenity

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.310, Psychology Press

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• Cualquiera que sea el curso de nuestras vidas, debemos recibirlas como el más alto don de la mano de Dios, en la que igualmente reposa el poder de no hacer nada en absoluto por nosotros. De hecho, deberíamos aceptar la desgracia no sólo con agradecimiento, sino con infinita gratitud a la Providencia, que por tales medios nos desprende de un amor excesivo por las cosas terrenales y eleva nuestras mentes a lo celestial y divino.

  Galileo Galilei

  Gratitud, Significado, Manos

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• Los que son felices y tienen éxito son demasiado propensos a tomarse a la ligera las desgracias de los demás.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Successful, Light, Misfortunes Of Others

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2010). “The Complete Works of Elizabeth Gaskell (20+ Books)”, p.1710, BookCaps Study Guides

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• These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit.

  Daniel Defoe

  Reflection, People, Hardship

  Daniel Defoe (1858). “The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe: of York, mariner; with a biographical account of Defoe”, p.109

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• When the sun is shining, think of the time it won't be, because even when you're sitting in your house with the doors shut, misfortune can fall from above. Page 279

  Lisa See

  Fall, Thinking, Doors

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• The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those last days... and yet we were profoundly separated from her.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Adventure, Solitude, Lasts

  Simone de Beauvoir (1969). “A very easy death”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• La verdadera desgracia no es la desigualdad, sino la dependencia.

  Voltaire

  Real, Inequality, Dependence

  "Igualdad" de Voltaire, 1764.

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• The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

  Georges Bataille

  Night, Owl, Fields

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• So now, from this mad passion Which made me take art for an idol and a king I have learnt the burden of error that it bore And what misfortune springs from man's desire... The world's frivolities have robbed me of the time That I was given for reflecting upon God.

  Miguel Ángel

  Art, Kings, Spring

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• Llevamos sobre nosotros la carga de lo que miles de personas han dicho y los recuerdos de todas nuestras desgracias. Abandonar todo eso es estar solo, y la mente que está sola no sólo es inocente sino joven -no en el tiempo ni en la edad, sino joven, inocente, viva a cualquier edad- y sólo una mente así puede ver lo que es verdad y lo que no se puede medir con palabras.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Memories, People, Meditation

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• Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil.

  Jane Austen

  Hate, Men, Evil

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.80

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