Misfortunes Quotes - Page 12

• Debemos afrontar los reveses con valentía y no dejar que nos asusten, querida. Debemos aprender a actuar la obra. ¡Debemos vivir la desgracia, Trot!

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Play, Suffering

  Charles Dickens (1992). “David Copperfield”, p.425, Wordsworth Editions

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• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  Jane Austen

  Ignorance, Vanity, Knowing

  La abadía de Northanger (1818) cap. 14

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• If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature. All the misfortunes Providence inflicts on him come from his stubborness in denying that maxim.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Artist, Thinking, Suffering

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmüller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, Belknap Press

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• We can only feel sorry for ourselves when our misfortunes are still supportable. Once this limit is crossed, the only way to bear the unbearable is to laugh at it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Sorry, Laughing, Way

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• It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Too Much, Equal, Interest

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• Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.

  Daniel Handler

  Mother, Women, Numbers

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• En la desgracia, ¿qué amigo sigue siendo amigo?

  Eurípides

  Restos

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• The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Differences, Would Be, Politics

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• In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Land, League, Three

  Diana Wynne Jones (2012). “Howl's Moving Castle”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• Con este libro en la mano, recostado en su mullido sillón, se dirá: tal vez me divierta. Y después de haber leído esta historia de grandes desgracias, sin duda cenará bien, culpando al autor de su propia insensibilidad, acusándole de exageración salvaje y vuelos de fantasía. Pero tranquilos: esta tragedia no es una ficción. Todo es verdad.

  Honore de Balzac

  Book, Hands, Doubt

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• Interesamos a los demás por la desgracia que difundimos a nuestro alrededor.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Interest, Spread

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• ..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

  Edith Wharton

  Husband, Ties, Wife

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.192, VM eBooks

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• For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

  Marco Tulio Cicerón

  Philosophical, Tears, Misfortunes Of Others

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1942). “Cicero: De oratore ...”

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• It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Office, Political, Training

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. 1876.

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• Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Hermione, Warts

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• Prueba a un sirviente en el cumplimiento de su deber, a un pariente en la dificultad, a un amigo en la adversidad y a una esposa en la desgracia.

  Chanakya

  Relación, Adversidad, Esposa

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• As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspirational, Funny, Fathers Day

  Lord Chesterfield, David Roberts (2008). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.239, Oxford University Press

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• Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life, there is only dramatization, that there is no tragedy, there is only unexplained misfortune, debases us. It denies what we know to be true. In denying what we know, we are as a nation which cannot remember its dreams--like an unhappy person who cannot remember his dreams and so denies that he does dream, and denies that there are such things as dreams.

  David Mamet

  Dream, Drama, Unhappy Person

  David Mamet (1986). "Escribir en restaurantes", Viking Adult

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• No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won’t make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Optimistic, Whining

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• Las personas que sólo tienen buenas experiencias no son muy interesantes. Pueden estar contentos, y felices después de una moda, pero no son muy profundos. Puede parecer una desgracia ahora, y dificulta las cosas, pero bueno... es fácil sentir todas las cosas felices y sencillas. No es que la felicidad sea necesariamente simple. Pero no creo que vayas a tener una vida así, y creo que serás mejor por ello. Lo difícil es no dejarse abrumar por las malas rachas. No debes dejar que te derroten. Debes verlas como un regalo... un regalo cruel, pero un regalo al fin y al cabo.

  Peter Cameron

  Vida, Moda, Simple

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• Pensemos en la araña viuda negra. Es una pequeña bestia tímida, útil y, para mi gusto, el más bonito de los arácnidos, con su acabado brillante de charol y su marca de reloj de arena rojo. Pero el pobre tiene la fatal desgracia de poseer demasiada potencia para su tamaño. Así que todo el mundo la mata nada más verla.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Potencia, Mira, Negro

  Robert A. Heinlein (2014). "Forastero en tierra extraña", p.230, Hachette UK

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• Milton Friedman’s misfortune is that his economic policies have been tried.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Economic, Milton, Policy

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• I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Tests, Failing, Irrevocable

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.158, Baen Books

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• No-one is exempt from speaking nonsense – the only misfortune is to do it solemnly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Tonterías

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• A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Arte, Creer, Escribir

  "Twenty-four Conversations with Borges, Including a Selection of Poems: Interviews by Roberto Alifano, 1981-1983". Book by Roberto Alifano, 1984.

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