misfortune

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bc32738	That's how stories happen -- with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.	unhappiness life misfortune stories	Haruki Murakami
178fada	Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.	fate humor top-8 unfairness misfortune	P.G. Wodehouse
fdc5dd5	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.	misfortune	Marjane Satrapi
328966d	He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.	life melancholy misfortune	P.G. Wodehouse
64b5cf1	They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.	windmills quixote stone misery misfortune lunatic insane	Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
e18b1c8	The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce.	love trouble misfortune	P.G. Wodehouse
78cc9f1	But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.	passage-of-time misfortune	Ivo Andrić
0ab405c	It never rains but it pours	misfortune	L.M. Montgomery
4e3b021	You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.	happiness life misfortune	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2b0998f	Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.	loss friendship life humanity-and-society friendship-true-and-loyal friendship-quotes trivial misfortune	Anne Carson
d0d4f82	...misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.	louisa-may-alcott misfortune	Louisa May Alcott
8d47139	When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.	misfortune	Simon Beckett
90ad531	You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?	humor misfortune	Alan Moore
9a310a1	...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.	triumph misfortune	Ivo Andrić
94f2e50	And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.	sadness misfortune	Howard Pyle
858ba01	When I was young I lived a constant storm, Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through, So in my garden few red fruits were born, The rain and thunder had so much to do. -	time misfortune	Charles Baudelaire
5d08208	Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.	love toxic-relationships the-message-to-the-planet iris-murdoch misfortune	Iris Murdoch
b2a8517	I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?	heart-of-the-matter misfortune	Emily Giffin

bc32738

That's how stories happen -- with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

unhappiness life misfortune stories

Haruki Murakami

178fada

Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.

fate humor top-8 unfairness misfortune

P.G. Wodehouse

fdc5dd5

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.

misfortune

Marjane Satrapi

328966d

He was a Frenchman, a melancholy-looking man. His aspect was that of one who has been looking for the leak in a gas pipe with a lighted candle.

life melancholy misfortune

P.G. Wodehouse

64b5cf1

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

windmills quixote stone misery misfortune lunatic insane

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

e18b1c8

The snag in this business of falling in love, aged relative, is that the parties of the first part so often get mixed up with the wrong parties of the second part, robbed of their cooler judgement by the party of the second part's glamour. Put it like this: the male sex is divided into rabbits and non-rabbits and the female sex into dashers and dormice, and the trouble is that the male rabbit has a way of getting attracted by the female dasher (who would be fine for the non-rabbit) and realizing too late that he ought to have been concentrating on some mild, gentle dormouse with whom he could settle down peacefully and nibble lettuce.

love trouble misfortune

P.G. Wodehouse

78cc9f1

But misfortunes do not last forever (this they have in common with joys) but pass away or are at least diminished and become lost in oblivion. Life on the kapia always renews itself despite everything and the bridge does not change with the years or with the centuries or with the most painful turns in human affairs. All these pass over it, even as the unquiet waters pass beneath its smooth and perfect arches.

passage-of-time misfortune

Ivo Andrić

0ab405c

It never rains but it pours

misfortune

L.M. Montgomery

4e3b021

You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most.

happiness life misfortune

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2b0998f

Friends disappear or they are powerless. This is what misfortune means an acid test of friendship. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

loss friendship life humanity-and-society friendship-true-and-loyal friendship-quotes trivial misfortune

Anne Carson

d0d4f82

...misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck.

louisa-may-alcott misfortune

Louisa May Alcott

8d47139

When it comes to misfortune, we are all selfish at heart, offering up the same prayers: not me, not mine. Not yet.

misfortune

Simon Beckett

90ad531

You had a bad day once, am I right? I know I am. I can tell. You had a bad day and everything changed. Why else would you dress up like a flying rat?

humor misfortune

Alan Moore

9a310a1

...it was an intimate bond between the men of that generation ... for nothing brings men close together than a common misfortune happily overcome.

triumph misfortune

Ivo Andrić

94f2e50

And it was at this time that Sir Myles died of his hurt, for it is often so that death and misfortune befall some, whiles others laugh and sing for hope and joy, as though such grievous things as sorrow and death could never happen in the world wherein they live.

sadness misfortune

Howard Pyle

858ba01

When I was young I lived a constant storm, Though now and then the brilliant suns shot through, So in my garden few red fruits were born, The rain and thunder had so much to do. -

time misfortune

Charles Baudelaire

5d08208

Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.

love toxic-relationships the-message-to-the-planet iris-murdoch misfortune

Iris Murdoch

b2a8517

I close my eyes, wondering whether we are ever truly blindsided by misfortune. Or, somehow, somewhere, in the form of empathy or worry or a premonition deep within ourselves, do we feel it coming?

heart-of-the-matter misfortune

Emily Giffin