quotations about misfortune
Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT & JOHN FLETCHER
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The Triumph of Honour
Those who have endured some misfortune will always be set apart but that it is just that misfortune which is their gift and which is their strength and that they must make their way back into the common enterprise of man for without they do so it cannot go forward and they themselves will whither in bitterness.
CORMAC MCCARTHY
All the Pretty Horses
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.
AESOP
"The Eagle and the Arrow", Aesop's Fables