60 phrases about misfortune to ponder

In this compilation of phrases about misfortune you will find reflections of authors and historical figures as important as William Shakespeare, Confucius or Rubén Darío.

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60 phrases of misfortune

The fear of avoiding falling into their dominions is so great that sometimes that fear can lead us to make wrong decisions. And it is that misfortune, or the fear of it, always lurks if it becomes one of our obsessions and we do not know how to manage our expectations well.

Below you will find a selection of phrases of misfortune that will help you reflect on those adverse moments.

1. It is curious how far a misfortune is when it does not concern us personally (John Steinbeck)

This phrase of misfortune brings us closer to that disconnection that people feel with respect to other people who go through distressing situations.

2. Unmerited honor is the preamble to misfortune (Han Shan)

Expectations can turn into disappointments.

3. Wretched is he who is so considered (Seneca)

A phrase by Seneca about suggestion and induction towards sadness.

4. Fate does not weigh on man every time he does something; but it weighs on him, unless he does something (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

For Chesterton, it is an issue of responsibility.

5. Speaking of our misfortunes we alleviate them (Pierre Corneille)

Talking lessens the pain.

6. The unfortunate has no other medicine than hope (William Shakespeare)

A medicine that many times does not arrive or is not real.

7. There is nothing more excused and even lost than telling the wretched man his misfortunes to those who have a chest full of happiness (Miguel de Cervantes)

Little can be expected from a situation like that.

8. Because it is touching bottom, even in bitterness and degradation, where one comes to know who he is, and where then he begins to tread firmly (José Luis Sampedro)

When we get to the depths of an adverse situation.

9. There are many people who get into the habit of being unhappy (George Eliot)

Sometimes we do our best to make ourselves unhappy, making bad decisions.

10. Isn't it sad to consider that only misfortune makes men brothers? (Benito Pérez Galdos)

For Pérez Galdos, brotherhood must always be lived.

11. When misfortune comes, it never comes alone, but in battalions (William Shakespeare)

It often happens that one situation triggers a worse one.

12. A lot of misfortune and a lot of confinement means living on an island (Abilio Estévez)

Phrase of this Cuban writer referring to the political situation in his country.

13. The greatest misfortune is to deserve misfortune (Jean de La Fontaine)

There are people who believe that they deserve to go through adversity.

14. Men in disgrace do not attract crowds, but curious (Francisco Martín Moreno)

People who can waste your time or your mental health.

15. Misery is the closest bond of hearts (Jean de La Fontaine)

It opens up a vulnerable and sensitive situation and makes it easy to contact others more honestly and intimately.

16.In misfortunes we must remember the state of conformity with which we look at other people's (Epictetus of Phrygia)

The philosopher Epictetus tries to make us reflect on the level of empathy we can have with others.

17. Those that are lost are greater misfortunes (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)

According to the value of them, the size of the penalty is measured.

18. Lying in the midst of misery, the soul sees a lot (Sophocles)

When by a stroke of reality we realize many things.

19. A man is the sum of his misfortunes It could be believed that misery will end one day by getting tired, but then it is time that becomes our misery (William Faulkner)

An interesting reflection of Faulker.

20. Misfortune is the midwife of virtues (Louis de Jaucourt)

In disgrace the virtues are forged.

21. Only misfortune can turn a rock heart into a human heart (Fénelon)

The power of misery has a transformative effect.

22. Misfortune reveals lights to the soul that prosperity does not perceive (Blaise Pascal)

It shows the side that we rarely discover.

23. There is only one true misfortune for man: to incur a fault and have a reason for censure against himself (Jean de la Bruyere)

Phrase of misery by Jean de la Bruyere, about self-concept.

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24. When you have problems, people are afraid of getting infected... Misfortune is contagious (Katherine Pancol)

It is for this reason that in difficult times many people walk alone.

25. Most of our misfortunes are more bearable than the comments our friends make about them (Charles Caleb Colton)

Sometimes disappointment comes in other ways.

26. Misfortune, by linking itself to me, gradually taught me another religion, different from the religion taught by men (George Sand)

In misery a new spirituality is found.

27. The most unfortunate are those who cry the least (Jean-Baptiste Racine)

On not being able to express their emotions freely.

28. That head that proudly bears his misfortune, like a king his crown (Carlo Bini)

This phrase is for people who relapse into misery.

29. The most feared misfortunes are, ordinarily, those that never come (James Russell Lowell)

For Lowell these kinds of misfortunes are those that produce the most anxiety.

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30. It is not good to be unhappy, but it is good to have been (Antoine Gombaud)

Because one can learn many lessons not to repeat them.

31. In life, the saddest thing is not being completely unhappy, it is that we have very little to be happy and we cannot achieve it (Jacinto Benavente)

About not being able to complete our happiness.

32. Knowing the things that make one unhappy is already a kind of happiness (François de La Rochefoucauld)

Even more so if we avoid them.

33. If you don't want to be unhappy, treat catastrophes as annoyances, but by no means do annoyances as catastrophes (André Maurois)

You have to know how to approach and appropriately face every difficult situation.

34. Misfortune is a dead end. It leads directly to the wall. If you want to get rid of her, stay away from her back. So you will think that he backs down while you stand up to him (Yasmina Khadra)

For Khadea it is important to know how to deal with misfortune.

35. The most unfortunate of all men is the one who thinks he is (Fénelon)

When we pigeonhole ourselves into one position.

36. Man can bear misfortunes that are accidental and come from outside of him But suffering from his own faults, that is the nightmare of life (Oscar Wilde)

An unfortunate phrase from Oscar Wilde will always be an honest reflection.

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37. The ruined man reads his condition in the eyes of others so quickly that he himself feels his downfall (William Shakespeare)

When we project our experience onto the other.

38. Misfortune is also necessary to discover certain mysterious mines hidden in human intelligence (Alexander Dumas)

In all circumstances of life we ​​learn something.

39. My life has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened (Michel de Montaigne)

When you live inside a lie and even worse when they have had an effect on you.

40. Hate the mouths that predict eternal misfortunes (Rubén Darío)

For Rubén Darío, we must avoid playing with the future.

41. (...) All the misfortunes in the world were born from the many lies, those told on purpose, but also the involuntary ones, caused by haste or imprecision (Michael Ende)

An interesting reflection by Ende about what can make us happy or unhappy.

42. Misfortunes, like fortune, only come when we have sought them with our actions (Confucius)

Everything has a consequence, and misery is one of them.

43. The small minds are domesticated and subjugated by misfortune, while the great ones overcome it (Washington Irving)

This phrase of unhappiness can encourage a person who is going through a very difficult situation.

44. For greater misfortunes he saves the fortune to whom he favors (Seneca)

It is a way of achieving security.

45. Even misfortune gets tired (Seneca)

Nothing lasts forever.

46. Unforeseen misfortune hurts us more strongly (Seneca)

When we are not ready for difficult moments.

47. Each one is as he is, and already has enough misfortune (José Luis Coll)

On the particular individualities of each human experience.

48. Light is the misfortune that can be suffered, and that which is not, brief (Seneca)

A way of differentiating misery.

49. There is no misfortune for which there is no remedy (Seneca)

Every misfortune has a solution.

50. Misfortunes are of no use to those who do not learn from them (Seneca)

Misfortune can be turned into something useful and constructive, we must take advantage of it.

51. Time makes misfortunes bearable (Seneca)

Whether due to laziness or training.

52. Misfortune is capable of opening the eyes of even the blind. She is a teacher who knows a lot, and a friend who does not cheat, like happiness (Ventura Ruiz Aguilera)

Misfortune brings us back to reality with all its nuances.

53. Certain men have the talent to see a lot in everything. But they have the misfortune to see everything that is not there, and nothing that there is (Jaime Balmes)

It is a question of perspectives.

54. Who laughs last, at the misfortune of others, laughs better (Roberto Fontanarrosa)

Humor will always be a smart way to deal with these types of situations.

55. How the star of misfortune was lit in his life, which has a dim light, as you writers would say (Sergio Ramírez)

Ramirez addresses misfortune in a poetic way

56. Misfortune rarely comes alone (John Dryden)

It is also attached various events also elusive.

57. There is no greater pain than to remember the happy times in misfortune (Dante Alighieri)

Longing for happy memories that make us feel miserable.

58. Death always knows how to connect vice with misfortune (Jindrich Styrsky)

An aphorism about the vices that accumulate until they lead us to a situation in which there is no going back.

59. Do not laugh at a person in his misfortune (Chilo of Sparta)

It is the lowest expression of humanity that we can have.

60. Every creature in disgrace has the same right to be protected (Francisco de Asís)

Saint Francis of Assisi, was known to always show mercy towards animals.