Catastrophe Quotes

344 Catastrophe quotes by 289 unique authors

Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is where California comes… — Don DeLillo
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we and our posterity… — Daniel Webster
Life, it turns out, goes on. There is no cosmic rule that grants you immunity from the details just because you have come face-to-face with… — Jodi Picoult
You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes. — Ilona Andrews
Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body. — Jean Cocteau
Your welcome means more to me, Ivy Alisha Tamwood, than a thousand souls. Watching Rachel work is a wonder of one catastrophe after another. — Kim Harrison
Regardless of the staggering dimensions of the world about us, the density of our ignorance, the risks of catastrophes to come, and our individual weakness… — Simone de Beauvoir
Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should… — Pam Brown
I'm planning a catastrophe. — Leonard Cohen
I'll tickle his catastrophe. — James Joyce
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. — Frank O'Hara
The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially… — Albert Einstein
She loved Bram in a clear-eyed way she’d never loved her ex-husband, no rose-colored glasses or mindless giddiness, no Cinderella fantasies or false certainty that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within… — Daniel Quinn
But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not… — Anne Michaels
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs,… — Daniel Handler
I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because… — Stephenie Meyer
You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink! — Karen Marie Moning
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. The country is grey and brown… — Frank O'Hara
I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration- joy and pain sit side by side. The… — Cornel West
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged… — Ralph Ellison
He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as… — Jack London
In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie… — Karl Marx

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