Calamity Quote by Peter Lombard

For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us,…

— Albert Camus

Animated by Christian motives and directed to Christian ends, it shall in no wise go unrewarded: here, by the testimony of an approving conscience;…

— Richard Mant

We declare that a great number of those who are condemned to eternal punishment suffer that everlasting calamity because of ignorance of those mysteries…

— Pope Benedict XIV

“...out of despair I decided to follow this horror through. I stared down at what I was already grasping in my hand, like an…

— Georges Bataille

“From Jane Collier's "An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting" - In short, keep up in your mind the true spirit of contradiction…

— Jane Collier

“We should not take lightly the horrible thoughts this place of death and destruction are meant to unveil. We are warned about the misery…

— John Bunyan

“Therefore it is better to endure troubles with the hope of eternal deliverance than to avoid them and rush into eternal ruin.”

— Martin Luther

“Wordless, it rises and falls in hemidemisemitones of unearthly misery. The dirge of the damned”

— Edward Abbey

“It might be said that in the sublime feeling, thinking becomes impatient, despairing, disinterested in attaining the ends of freedom by means of nature.”

— Zinzi Clemmons

“There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . .…

— Solomon Northrup

“Yet at least we can admire the wise Prearrangement which has ordained that, as they have no hopes, so they shall have no memory…

— Edwin A. Abbott

“We pursue whatever we pursue out of torment — a need for torment. Our very quest for salvation is a torment, the subtlest, the…

— Emil M. Cioran