Disaster Quote by Philip Roth

Turned the wrong way around, the relentless unforeseen was what we schoolchildren studied in "History", harmless history, where everything unexpected in its own time…

— Philip Roth

“And as Lindbergh's election couldn't have made clearer to me, the unfolding of the unforeseen was everything. Turned wrong way round, the relentless unforeseen…

— Philip Roth

With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable…

— Guy Debord

One of the things I know from the study of history is that history surprises you. History is not written. It's not inevitable.The victory…

— Salman Rushdie

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the…

— David Mamet

James Joyce is right about history being a nightmare-- but it may be that nightmare from which no one can awaken. People are trapped…

— James A. Baldwin

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed. History is a tale of efforts that failed, or aspirations that weren’t realized . So,…

— Henry A. Kissinger

“It never is what you worry over that comes to pass in the end. The real catastrophes are always different — unimagined, unprepared for, unknown.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

To delve into history entails, besides the grievance of hard work, the danger that in the depths one may lose one’s scapegoats.

— Jacques Barzun

History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth.

— Jean Cocteau

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale…

— A. N. Wilson

History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce.

— Karl Marx