Quote by Stefan Zweig

“Our disaster personalities are more complex and ancient than we think. But they are also more mal­leable.”

— Amanda Ripley

“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”

— Mark Lawrence

“They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.”

— Norman Maclean

“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe. But fine…

— Deb Caletti

“When they began, they could not have thought that it would end like this, because their time seemed to them as simple as a…

— Murray Kempton

“But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had…

— Stefan Zweig

“he explains that tragedy’s most cruel lesson is not that human beings are flawed, or that fate can be unkind, but that no one…

— Jean Hegland

“A strange mixture of disbelief and complete trust washed over me. On the one hand, I had no way to explain what had just…

— Larry Gottlieb

“They were a bit shaken, and sometimes a little dispirited. But at least they never lived to know that everything they’d believed in was…

— George Orwell

“it didn’t matter who you were or what you’d accomplished in life; none of that mattered when tragedy struck. You had no pull; no…

— Lindy Zart

“...and I wondered, not for the first time, if some of life's tragedy arose when people put themselves in situations they were not by…

— Charlotte Rogan

“But just as natural disaster brought out the best in some people, it brought out the worst in others.”

— Heather Graham