Calamity Quotes

264 Calamity quotes by 199 unique authors

You may regret calamities if you can thereby help the sufferer, but if you cannot, mind your own business. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our… — George Eliot
Calamity is virtue's opportunity. — Seneca the Younger
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a… — Seneca the Younger
Public calamity is a mighty leveller. — Edmund Burke
If, like the prophet Noah, you have patience in the distress of the flood, Calamity turns aside, and the desire of a thousand years comes… — Hafez
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh. — Lawrence Durrell
Crises are challenges, not calamities. — Guy Verhofstadt
At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to… — Margaret Chan
Too-easy credit and millions of bad loans made during the U.S. housing bubble paved the way for the financial calamity and Great Recession that followed.… — Mark Zandi
The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we… — Pope Benedict XIV
We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries of… — Pope Benedict XIV
The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw
Half a calamity is better than a whole one. — T.E. Lawrence
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray
There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science.… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many. — Publilius Syrus
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him.… — Charles Spurgeon
There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. — Mark Twain
Incessant falls teach men to reform, and distress rouses their strength. Life springs from calamity, and death from ease. — Mencius
Poverty, labor, and calamity are not without their luxuries, which the rich, the indolent, and the fortunate in vain seek for. — William Hazlitt
Bear calamities with meekness. — Euripides
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden

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