Anne Frank Quotes

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

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

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

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.

Bad things happen sometimes.

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

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

And woe succeeds woe.

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.

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

Misfortune is never invited. And it comes and sits at the table without permission and it eats, leaving nothing but bones.

Ill-luck, you know, seldom comes alone.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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.

Misfortune was my god.

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.

Crap has always happened, crap is happening, and crap will continue to happen.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

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

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