Jacques Roumain Quotes

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

And woe succeeds woe.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Misfortunes never come singly.

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.

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

I keep waiting, like in the cartoons, for an anvil to drop on my head.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

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.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

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

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

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

A man I am cross'd with adversity.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

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

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

Ill comes in by ells, and goes out by inches.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.