Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

A man endures misfortune without complaint.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Misfortune was my god.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.

I believe that the confidence of Hungary in me is not shaken by misfortune nor broken by my calumniators.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.