Jean de La Fontaine Quotes

Tragedy levels the playing field.

And woe succeeds woe.

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

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

I decided that it might be interesting to have terrible things happen to orphans over and over again.

Nobody is impervious to misfortune.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

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

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.

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

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.

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

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

Seriously,” Shane said, “this kind of is the worst situation we’ve ever been in, right?” “Speak for yourself,” Michael said. “I got myself killed last year. Twice.” “Oh yeah. You’re right—last year really sucked for you.

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.

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.

Fortune is never satisfied with bringing one sorrow.