Calamity Quotes

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

— Virgil

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

— Seneca the Younger

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

— Virgil

“Realize clarity from calamity.”

— T.F. Hodge

“calamity of their own making.”

— Michael Wolff

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

— Guy Verhofstadt

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Technology with out humanity is calamity.”

— Ted Agon

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

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

— Suzanne Curchod

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

— Edward Gibbon

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life;

— Mark Twain

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;”

— Lao Tzu

'Calamity Jane' inspired me to be a performer. I still want to be her.

— Gayle Rankin

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not…

— John Podhoretz

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt than discontent. And there is no greater disaster than…

— Laozi

Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease.

— Mencius

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities.…

— William Graham Sumner

Justice is peculiarly indispensable to nations . The unjust State is doomed of God to calamity and ruin. This is the teaching…

— Albert Pike

“A calamity that makes you turn to Allah(God) is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of…

— Ibn Taymiyyah

Whenever an important event, a revolution, or a calamity turns to the profit of the church, such is always signalised as the…

— Voltaire

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of…

— John Adams

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

— Epictetus

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful…

— Guru Nanak

A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and…

— Joseph Addison

The tendency of those committed to the theory of catastrophic man-made global warming to unquestioningly adopt the assumptions, at every stage, that…

— Peter Lilley

Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always…

— Frederick Rolfe

Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great…

— Mark Zandi

I want to express my closeness to the people of the Philippines who have been struck by a strong earthquake, and I…

— Pope Francis

'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit…

— James Russell Lowell

“The suspicion that a calamity might also be a punishment is further useful in that it allows an infinity of speculation. After…

— Christopher Hitchens

I review all I know, but can synthesize no meaning. When I doze, the Fact, the certain accomplished calamity, wakes me roughly…

— Elizabeth Smart

The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different…

— Cornel West

For my father the one calamity was that my brother and sister and I never learned to swim. My father, who was…

— Maurice Sendak

In the days of peace every precaution should be taken to insure that there are no forces making for war. Just as…

— Frederic C. Howe

And yet, just as our body would burst asunder if the pressure of the atmosphere were removed from it, so would the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Sure must be a great consolation to the poor people who lost their stock in the late crash to know that it…

— Will Rogers