Better to be caught in sudden, complete catastrophe than to be gnawed by the cancer of imagination. — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
I think psychology and self-reflection is one of the major catastrophes of the twentieth century. — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
“Together we proceeded on our way towards catastrophe. [Depressed lawyer and his unsuspecting clients.]” — Gianrico Carofiglio Copy Share Image
“This is the root of all catastrophe in the family: no one ever knows when to call it a day.” — Emma Brockes Copy Share Image
Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place? — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
“There is no bombast, no similes, flowers, digressions, or unnecessary descriptions. Everything tends directly to the catastrophe.” — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that… — Harry Allen Overstreet Copy Share Image
“Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs; doing good comforts the living while prayers are extended to the one who attends to the… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
One of the strangest catastrophes that is in any history. A great king, with strong armies and mighty fleets, a great treasure… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
An announcement of [Christopher] Zeeman's lecture at Northwestern University in the spring of 1977 contains a quote describing catastrophe theory as the… — Stephen Smale Copy Share Image
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two decades will be so vast as to bring about a world where life,… — Kirkpatrick Sale Copy Share Image
If the level and amount of consumption and waste of the western rich countries ever reaches the poor countries, it will mean… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Civilization is perhaps approaching one of those long winters that overtake it from time to time. Romantic Christendom - picturesque, passionate, unhappy… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
How would you describe the difference between modern war and modern industry-between say, bombing and strip mining, or between chemical warfare and… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
In 2008 we suffered an economic catastrophe, and the rules of the game fundamentally changed forever. A few years ago, you might… — Josh Linkner Copy Share Image
“Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“How do you turn catastrophe into art? Nowadays the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We'll have a play on the… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Most people consume information passively-whatever they're being fed. They're being fed Russian television, which tells them that in the 90s there was… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed,… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
The purely material world seems to have more in common than we with the unchanging and everlasting years of the Great Creator.… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe. — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe. — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms. — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
Nationalism stems from catastrophes, whether they are caused by earthquakes or lost wars. — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
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