Calamity is the test of integrity.

The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist…

— Chuck Klosterman

Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they…

— Epictetus

In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony...

— Marvin Sapp

Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not…

— Fulton J. Sheen

I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

— Edward Gibbon

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne…

— Samuel Johnson

There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which…

— Tara Stiles

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

— Helen Keller

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the…

— A. C. Bradley

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the…

— Amelia Barr

I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the…

— Tom Dunne