I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

I is another.

I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.

I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Morality is the weakness of the brain.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Misfortune was my god.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

Prosperity is the measure or touchstone of virtue, for it is less difficult to bear misfortune than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

The greatest misfortune of the wise man and the greatest unhappiness of the fool are based upon convention.

Unless some misfortune has made it impossible, everyone can have good posture.

Rashness is the faithful, but unhappy parent of misfortune.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

How can you expect a man to be brave when he meets with nothing in life but misfortune?

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to be better than he is.

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

In misfortune, which friend remains a friend?

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.