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Misfortune Quotes

“Farewell, sweet lady, dearest Elizabeth, my beloved and only friend; may heaven in its bounty bless and preserve you; may this be the last misfortune that you will ever suffer. Live, and be happy, and make others so.”

– Mary Shelley

Frankenstein, Chapter 8. Justine in her parting words to Elizabeth before being unjustly executed.

This great misfortune – to be incapable of solitude.

– Jean de la Bruyere

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

– Charles de Secondat

Misfortune was my god.

– Arthur Rimbaud

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

– Aristotle

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

– Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Don Quixote’s misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

– Franz Kafka

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

– Ferdinand Marcos

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