Calamity Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

— Aeschylus

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

— Jack Kevorkian

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

— Rose Kennedy

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

— George C. Wallace

Suffering is a privilege. It moves us toward thinking of essential things and shakes us out of complacency. Calamity cracks you open, moves you…

— Pico Iyer

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

— Richard Llewellyn

You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the drowning man…

— Robert Greene

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

CALAMITY, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering. Calamities are…

— Ambrose Bierce

You may avoid suffering and sorrow if you don't risk, but you simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, love, live. The greatest hazard in…

— Anonymous

The abrupt and sudden death of my wife has taken a severe emotional and psychic toll on me. On top of that, some people…

— Shashi Tharoor

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson