Blaise Pascal Quotes

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

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

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Misfortune wandering the same track lights now upon one and now upon another.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

I am a disaster magnet. I came home from our first anniversary vacation with jellyfish stings, a puncture wound from a wrought iron pineapple and a cork-shaped bruise in my cleavage.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.

Tragedy levels the playing field.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

As they say, when a man begins to have bad luck, even clabber can break his head.