Calamity Quotes

264 Calamity quotes by 199 unique authors

Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs… — Rick Moody
...loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding… — Rohinton Mistry
Be a man!... What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to… — H.G. Wells
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled… — William Shakespeare
Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence… — Jean-Dominique Bauby
We are not going to change the whole world, but we can change ourselves and feel free as birds. We can be serene even in… — Swami Satchidananda
Then again, you cannot stop the flood of desire as it moves through the world, inappropriate though it may sometimes be. It is the prerogative… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist the… — Chuck Klosterman
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence. — Albert Camus
For I was never able to understand, then or later on, why, if one wanted to do a thing, one should not do it. For… — Isadora Duncan
Coleridge wrote, "Dreams are no shadows, but the very substances and calamities of my life. — Sidney Sheldon
In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone… — Albert Camus
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil… — Charlotte Bronte
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… — Fernando Pessoa
Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah — Francine Rivers
We are all members of the same flawed species. Putting our moral vision into practice means imposing our will on others. The human lust for… — Steven Pinker
Cookie had taken her daughter amber to school then walked the thirty-something feet to work earlier. Our business was on the second floor of Calamity's,… — Darynda Jones
...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with. — Lisa Kleypas
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity.… — Fulton J. Sheen
Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities. — Voltaire
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity. — William Shakespeare
The trick at every turn was to endure the test of living for as long as possible. The odds of survival were punishingly slim, for… — Elizabeth Gilbert
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens

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