“Stones are just stones and rain is just rain and misfortune is just bad luck.”
Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See
Source: All the Light We Cannot See
“There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.”
— Albert Camus, book Summer
Summer (1954), Return to Tipasa
Context: There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
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Source: Death Kit (1967), p.149
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Source: Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
“Such are the vicissitudes of our mortal lot: misfortune is born of prosperity, and good fortune of ill-luck.”
Habet has vices conditio mortalium, ut adversa ex secundis, ex adversis secunda nascantur.
Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer
V.
Panegyricus
“I only know that I love you.
That's your misfortune.”
Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)
Source: Gone with the Wind
