Personal Misfortune Quotes

I would regard it as a great misfortune to run for Mayor and still more to be elected.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else, but when it happens to you, why it seems to lose some of its Humor, and if it keeps on happening, why the entire laughter kinder Fades out of it.

Happiness doesn't require laughter, only well-being and a sense that the world is breaking someone else's heart, not mine.

The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

And once again I found myself wondering, as I drifted off to stunned and unbelieving sleep:How do these terrible things always happen to me?

All the bad things that have ever happened to me have always happened in Rome.

Do not, as is usually the case, thrust the care of the common weal upon your neighbor; then, as each one in his own thoughts makes light of the matter, all find to their surprise that they have drawn upon themselves by their neglect a personal misfortune.

Keep your misfortunes to yourself.