What appear to be calamities are often the sources of…

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

— Guy Verhofstadt

Bear calamities with meekness.

— Euripides

There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating…

— Henry Miller

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human…

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Now an army is exposed to six several calamities, not arising from natural causes, 1 but from faults for which the general is responsible.…

— Sun Tzu

Riches are of little avail in many of the calamities to which mankind are liable.

— Miguel de Cervantes

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

— Suzanne Curchod

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

— Ernest Bramah

War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply…

— William Ellery Channing