Disaster Quote by Francis Stuart Campbell

“Modern non-religious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Mircea Eliade

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“We act like pagans in a crisis--only one out of an entire crowd is daring enough to invest his faith in the character of…

— Oswald Chambers

“Whatever happened in the world was a decree from God. A task to be completed. Any crying or joy just got in the way…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He had that sense, or inward prophecy,-- which a young man had better never have been born than not to have, and a mature…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”

— Anonymous

“Misery needed to believe in a better future.”

— Michael Grant

“Modern nonreligious man assumes a tragic existence and his existential choice is not without its greatness.”

— Anonymous

“Nay, are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been…

— George Eliot

“After all, life was like that for most of us – the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather…

— Barbara Pym

“Here is your great soul—the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a…

— Seneca