Age Quote by Edward Gibbon

When a man has calamity upon calamity the world generally concludes that he must be a very wicked man to deserve them. Perhaps the…

— Amelia Barr

“Is it not the singularity of life that terrifies us? Is not the decisive difference between comedy and tragedy that tragedy denies us another…

— John Updike

The calamity of war, wherever, whenever and upon whomever it descends, is a tragedy for the whole of humanity.

— Raisa Gorbacheva

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

— Thomas Jefferson

The precise moment at which a great belief is doomed is easily recognisable; it is the moment when its value begins to be called…

— Gustave Le Bon

Since the State thrives on what it expropriates, the general decline in production that it induces by its avarice foretells its own doom. Its…

— Frank Chodorov

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are…

— Ambrose Bierce

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in…

— Virginia Woolf

History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their…

— Benjamin Franklin

“Tomorrow is the day of the yearly election of the Well-Doer. Tomorrow we shall again hand over to our Well-Doer the keys to the…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate…

— Nelson Mandela

The subject of a good tragedy must not be realistic.

— Pierre Corneille