Accounts Quote by Barbara Tuchman

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

— Jim Wallis

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

— Maurice Blanchot

Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've made, and what improvements should come next.

— Dan Ariely

“Psychologists have identified three distinct phases in a human's response to disasters. The first is denial. Previous wildfires had brought a series of near…

— Lizzie Johnson

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

— Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

Never in our country's history have we witnessed a natural disaster that has impacted so many people in such a wide area. In fact,…

— Jo Bonner

We have a real role in how our own collective lives, our nation, and our world and society turn out. Seizing those opportunities is…

— Rebecca Solnit

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

— Nadine Gordimer

The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every…

— Hilary Mantel

I always tell myself every disaster is more material for my work and another anecdote to tell.

— Hugh Dennis

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

— Stephen Mitchell