quotations about misfortune
Those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will whither in bitterness.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the Pretty Horses
If misfortunes have befallen you by your own misconduct, live, and be wiser for the future; if they have befallen you by the fault of others, live, you have nothing wherewith to reproach yourself.
JOHN HERRIES
An address to the public on the frequent and enormous crime of Suicide, January 2, 1774
As the dog runneth after him that flees, but flees him that standeth still; so misfortune pursueth those that flee from her, but flees those that face her.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts