Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And… — Haile Selassie
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. — Susan Sontag
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. — Edward Teller
I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble. — Kristin Scott Thomas
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished… — Len Wein
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H.G. Wells
Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in… — Cornel West
It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. — Virginia Woolf
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out… — Margaret Heffernan
That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
In front of the photograph of my mother as a child, I tell myself: she is going to die: I shudder, like winnicott's psychotic patient,… — Roland Barthes
Oh, what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was made personal, merely personal feeling. This is what is the matter with us:… — D. H. Lawrence
Anyone who knows me well must understand and be sympathetic to my genuine need to be my own greatest hero. It is not a flaw… — Pat Conroy
Today we are aware as never before of the plurality of human life-styles and possibilities, while at the same time being tied, like in an… — Gary Snyder
Now the same mystery which often veils from our eyes the reason for a catastrophe envelops just as frequently, when love is in question, the… — Marcel Proust
There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so… — Robert A. Heinlein
I believed in belief, for its own shining sake. To believe in the face of utter hopelessness, every article of evidence to the contrary, to… — Lance Armstrong
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
That a thing made by hand, the work and thought of a single craftsman, can endure much longer than its maker, through centuries in fact,… — Susan Vreeland
I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken… — Tom Waits
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe — Bruce Chatwin
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about… — Oscar Wilde
Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow.… — H.G. Wells
One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed… — Angela Carter
We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders. — Noam Chomsky

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