Calamity Quote by Oliver Goldsmith Download Open image “Mortifications are often more painful than real calamities.” — Oliver Goldsmith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calamity Mortification Painful Real Shame
The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen Copy Share Image
every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all. — Marcia Muller Copy Share Image
When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real. — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it — Bill W Copy Share Image
... mortification is basic to the act of photographing. The person is mobile, ... then I freeze one moment in his movement, a mere… — August Sander Copy Share Image
The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is that life actually goes on. When you're faced with a tragedy, a loss so huge that… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the anticipation of calamity. — Sax Rohmer Copy Share Image
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
How happy he who crowns in shades like these, A youth of labour with an age of ease. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleas'd he could whistle them back. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Every acknowledgment of gratitude is a circumstance of humiliation; and some are found to submit to frequent mortifications of this kind, proclaiming what obligations… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Forgetting your Self is the greatest injury; all the calamities flow from it. Take care of the most important, the lesser will take care… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time. A fever, a mutilation, a cruel disappointment, a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
In spite of calamity, He still has a plan for me, And it’s working for my good, And it’s building my testimony... — Marvin Sapp Copy Share Image
Calamity, war, famine, plague, death, adversity, disease, injury do not necessarily produce repentance. We may become better in a calamity but it does not… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong,… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is a big lesson in experiencing uncertainty and calamity with a sober focus - the most chaotic moments are the ones from which… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image