I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
Arthur Rimbaud
Misfortune was my god.
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
Franz Schubert
The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.
Charles R. Swindoll
Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.
Virgil
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites.
Isaac Mayer Wise
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Virginia Woolf
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
Stefan Zweig
This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
Jean de la Bruyere