quotations about misfortune
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
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All the Pretty Horses
Misfortunes cannot suffice to make a fool into an intelligent man.
CESARE PAVESE
This Business of Living
A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.
AESOP
"The Eagle and the Arrow", Aesop's Fables