Calamity Quote by John Dryden

The wise ones don't grieve because they know that fact of the world. peace of mind can't be obedient from weeping.

— Mak_786

May we never risk the life of our souls by being resentful or by bearing grudges.

— Gregory of Nyssa

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

To grieve for evils is often wrong; but it is much more wrong to grieve without them. All sorrow that lasts longer than its…

— Samuel Johnson

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their…

— Oscar Wilde

To our own sorrows serious heed we give, But for another?s we soon cease to grieve.

— Pindar

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

— Publilius Syrus

We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others.

— Michel de Montaigne

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.

— D. H. Lawrence

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own…

— George Bernard Shaw

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is to be expecting evil before it comes.

— Anonymous

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that theyhurt us by their crude violence, their absolute…

— Anonymous