Comedy Quote by Elif Shafak

“There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we…

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

“They say when a calamity strikes you it stuns your normal senses so much that emotions are held in check. Perhaps that is what…

— Preeti Shenoy

“no calamity greater than to be discontented with one's lot;”

— Lao Tzu

“At the first time, I do my best to try again against the inevitable tragedy. In the second time, I become disgusted towards the…

— Fredrica Bernkastel

“calamity of their own making.”

— Michael Wolff

“I had a long history of calamitous mishaps.”

— Janet Evanovich

“I will admit it sometimes felt strange to me to make the confession to someone and later catch them laughing, or flirting, or eating…

— Jennifer Dubois

“The problem, he thought, was that so much humour involved misfortune of one sort or another, and now that same human misfortune was out…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“Realize clarity from calamity.”

— T.F. Hodge

“So many mistakes. So many errors. So much tragedy as a result. In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe…

— Lisa See

“Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still…

— William Trevor

“This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great…

— Salman Rushdie