Unfortunate Quotes

“Seemingly minor yet persistent things penetrate the mind over time making it difficult to ever realize the impact; hence, though quite unfortunate, the most dangerous forms of corruption are those that are subtle and below the radar.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“It always seems as though the definition of love will remain debatable by an opinionated world.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.”
― Anthony Ryan, Tower Lord

“The man who has the disease of tomorrow is the most unfortunate man in the world.”
― G.I. Gurdjieff

“People are always talking about it being their duty to find their way to their fellow men — to their neighbour, as they are forever saying with all the baseness of false sentiment — when in fact it is purely and simply a question of finding their way to themselves. Let each first find his way to himself! And since hardly anyone has yet found his way to himself, it is inconceivable that any of these unfortunate millions has ever found his way to another human being — or to his neighbour, as they say, dripping with self-deception.”
― Thomas Bernhard, Concrete

“Don't mention your fortune in front of an unfortunate.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“An unfortunate thing that you can do to a person is to be unapologetically direct and not understand their side.”
― Sijdah Hussain, Red Sugar, No More

“Любовта винаги е удачна. Неудачните са тези, които я ползват.”
― Олег Черне, Безсмъртие и сексуален синдром

“If you don’t take care of the disenfranchised and outcasts of your city, they will come knocking on your door one day with revenge and bitterness”
― Sunday Adelaja

“But I've had such a rotten life. People like me are a problem.”
― Iris Murdoch, Henry and Cato

“Nobody ever says anything is too bad to be true.”
― John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

“Tell me about your children," he said.
"What would you like to know?"
"Anything. How did you decide on their names?"
"Justin was named after my husband's favorite uncle- a dear old bachelor who always brought him books when he was ill. My younger son, Stephen, was named after a character in an adventure novel Lord Clare and I read when we were children."
"What was the title?"
"I can't tell you; you'll think it's silly. It is silly. But we both loved it. We read it dozens of times. I had to send Henry my copy, after-"
After you stole his.
In Henry's view, the worst of West Ravenel's offenses had been stealing his copy of Stephen Armstrong: Treasure Hunter from a box of possessions beneath his bed at school. Although there had never been proof of the thief's identity, Henry had remembered that Ravenel had previously mocked him when he'd seen him reading it. "I know he's the one," Henry had written. "He's probably done something awful with it. Dropped it down the privy. I'd be surprised if the nincompoop can even read."
"Someday when we're big," Phoebe had written in response, full of righteous vengeance, "we'll go thrash him together and take it back from him."
But now she was sitting next to him at dinner.
"-after he lost his copy," she finished awkwardly.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Devil's Daughter

“If you loved me you wouldn't make me so unhappy.'
'I do love you. Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.”
― Maugham W. Somerset, The Razor's Edge

“Piety is a veritable malady of the soul – no matter what one does, one cannot mend one's ways. It penetrates the souls of the unfortunate more easily because it consoles them, because it offers them fantasies to console them for their woes, and so it is much more difficult to eradicate it from these souls than others.”
― Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom

“..the intellect which was certainly allotted to these most unfortunate, delicate, and ephemeral beings merely as a device for detaining them a minute within existence.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

“It is unfortunate that the global masses do not understand the biological toxicity of Space development.”
― Steven Magee

“Each one should ask himself/herself one Question early enough in life, "Am I fortunate or unfortunate, and if so 'Why'". Invariably the answer would be the same, and that will be the beginning of enlightenment.”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“It's painful listening to the clowning of the unfortunate or the dying.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Part of coping with mental illness is to see the humor in the unfortunate situation.”
― Steven Magee

“If he really wished for any of those things, Marianne knows, then they would happen,”
― Sally Rooney, Normal People

“Fortunately and unfortunately, I have found out the importance of self-control and learned it the hard way.”
― Noob Loop, My Mistake: Pregnant by My Student as Told by Axel Knox

“To all my friends that have the unfortunate destiny of dying from COVID-19: It was nice knowing you.”
― Steven Magee

“The USA is filled with good people and it is unfortunate that few of them are in the government.”
― Steven Magee

“It is unfortunate that the government chooses to be willfully incompetent in the field of environmental radiation.”
― Steven Magee

“Friends who seemed somehow to be slipping towards unfriends.”
― Bella Bathurst, Special

“Some of the biggest idiots I have been unfortunate enough to meet in life have been police officers.”
― Steven Magee

“I had an unfortunate encounter with mean staff at the high altitude Denver International Airport that ruined my vacation and I now avoid Colorado.”
― Steven Magee

“Unfortunately, 'accustomed to' here is really synonymous with 'damaged by'.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves