We’ve all learned by now that life isn’t as smooth sailing as we’d hope it to be. It’s constantly moving and as it moves, it hits rough patches more times than you can count. Never-ending peace and happiness is a fantasy that only hurts us the harder we cling on to it. Misfortunes are a part of life. Some you can avoid and some you just can’t.
But life is also a diamond in the rough. Every journey has obstacles and diversions. They may be inconvenient and agonizing but if you’re really up for it, you’re bound to reach your destination, one way or another. These 30 misfortune quotes may be what you need today to strengthen your mind and your heart.
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. – Albert Camus
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. – Voltaire
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. – William Faulkner
Only he has a right to complain of undeserved misfortune, that is unwilling to accept undeserved good fortune. – Ivan Panin
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. – Washington Irving
There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. – Haruki Murakami
We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. – François de La Rochefoucauld
When any calamity has been suffered, the first thing to be remembered, is, how much has been escaped. – Samuel Johnson
There is no accident so exquisitely unfortunate, but wise men will make some advantage of it. – Wellins Calcott
The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me. – Miguel De Cervantes
As a rule, I don’t like to laugh at the misfortune of others. The exception to that rule is if it’s really, really funny. – Scott Adams
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
Disappointment or misfortune don’t last long among us, the poor; we can’t live if we brood on them the whole time. – Viramma Racine
During misfortunes, nothing aggravates our condition more, than to be esteemed deserving of them. – Norman MacDonald
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation. – Dorothy Parker
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
Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men. – Seneca
People overwhelmed with trouble do not look behind; they know only too well that misfortune follows them. – Victor Hugo
Misfortune is a stepping stone for genius, the baptismal font of Christians, treasure for the skillful man, an abyss for the feeble. – Honore de Balzac
We’re not stupid! We’re just poor! And we have a right to insist on this distinction. – Orhan Pamuk
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. – Charles Caleb Colton
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. – Michel de Montaigne
When bad things are constantly happening you know you’re living in the real world. – Marty Rubin
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins. – Hafiz
There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune. – Marcus Aurelius
The highest destiny of any individual is not in his fortune but in his misfortune. – P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use. – Epictetus
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God. – Honoré de Balzac
From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a long way. – Yiddish Proverb
Show not yourself glad at the misfortune of another, though he were your enemy. – George Washington
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