Ill Fortune Quotes

“Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...”
― Plutarch, Plutarch's Lives: Volume II

“Initially, the talk of misery spreads throughout the neighborhood, becoming in turn the rumor of ill-fortune and later the certainty of doom.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

“You can spoil your good luck with your stupidity, but even with all the smartness in the world, you can never outrun your bad luck.”
― Shon Mehta, Stories Of Jivavarta

“But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.”
― Zoë Heller, Everything You Know

“All our omens hold the mystery of some grave human consequence, now forgotten, leaving only the gleaming symbol in its aftermath. In attempting to comprehend a turn of ill-fortune, we may search for an omen as prelude, for to find such a sign imposes meaning on the chaotic. In seeking an omen, we frequently seek a bird.”
― Doireann Ní Ghríofa, A Ghost in the Throat

“Csak annyi biztos, hogy [Sándor] meglőtte magát. Zsófi kétségbeesésének azonban áldozat kellett, magát a balsorsot akarta megfojtani, amellyel most találkozott először szemtől szemben.”
― László Németh, Gyász