So it was like that now, catastrophe inevitable at the…

It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen.

— J. Lynn

I'm fascinated with old stories that you can read in newspapers that seem like catastrophe movies.

— Gaspar Noe

It's the hardest thing on earth to like yourself, and then when you do, it's a catastrophe. I mean, the people I know who…

— Mike Nichols

“Somebody waits for the time I know will never come You get yourself so high Then you come down feeling blue One day you’ll…

— Blue Rodeo

Novels are food for the leftover hours of life, the in-between times, the moments of waiting.

— Young-Ha Kim

I feel like every catastrophe in our lives, you remember exactly where you were, what you were doing, who you were with, almost down…

— Cat Zingano

All the parties of capitalist society, all its moralists and all its sycophants will perish beneath the debris of the impending catastrophe. The only…

— Leon Trotsky

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and…

— Margaret Heffernan

“War is catastrophe. It breaks families in irretrievable pieces. But those who are gone are not necessarily lost.”

— Ruta Sepetys

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred…

— David Suzuki

Dark influences from the American past congregate among us still. If we are a democracy, what are we to make of the palpable elements…

— Harold Bloom

To you, the people of Flint, I say, as I have before, I am sorry and I will fix it. No citizen of this…

— Rick Snyder

“..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...”

— Michel Leiris

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul…

— L. Neil Smith