Unfortunate Quotes

I'm gay. It's pretty unfortunate.

I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent.

In them days, it was just still not illegal to kill an Indian. If you killed an Indian, you'd be very unfortunate if you got probation - most of them were released immediately.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

It was very unfortunate that Allah's Apostle was prevented from writing that statement for them because of their disagreement and noise.

It is unfortunate for the gods that, unlike us, they cannot commit suicide.

The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.

Myself acquainted with misfortune, I learn to help the unfortunate.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

We become innocent when we are unfortunate.

It's always unfortunate when something gets misreported and the facts are not clear.

I'm in the unfortunate position of having to consider other people's feelings

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

The brave unfortunate are our best acquaintance.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

I have an unfortunate personality.

That's the unfortunate thing about death. It's so terribly final.

No one knows he is fortunate until he becomes unfortunate, that's the way the world is.

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

The unfortunate are always egotistical.

The fastidious are unfortunate; nothing satisfies them.

We often quarrel with the unfortunate to get rid of pitying them.

Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]

The world is more like it is now then it ever has before.

It's unfortunate that music has become such big business.

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

Believe me, the gods spare the afflicted, and do not always oppress those who are unfortunate.

Unfortunate and wretched are those who have respected a book they did not love and hated those they did.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

The friends of the unfortunate live a long way off.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness;
we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

The unfortunate do not pity the unfortunate.

Nobody ever chooses the already unfortunate as objects of his loyal friendship.

I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.

By resorting to self-resignation,
the unfortunate consummate.

If you believe yourself unfortunate because you have loved and lost, perish the thought. One who has loved truly, can never lose entirely.

A lot of professions happen to be male-dominated because women drop out at a certain point. It's unfortunate.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

I don't read my reviews. Unless I'm unfortunate enough to catch something by accident, which happens, and it's always a bad review. Always, it's amazing. I will be sitting in a café, and I will open a random paper right to the page of the review.... And then you're sucked in and go home and never want to go out again.

Idiots don't know they're idiots, which is unfortunate.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.