Quotes About Catastrophe

A few monkeys and parrots were loose on the wreck, clambering hysterically toward nowhere. He saw several animals disappear into the flames.

Again you play with my people, resist sending them. Listen: tomorrow at this time a hard hailstorm falls, as has never been in Egypt, not from the day of its founding. Send out your word: the cattle, all that belongs to you in the field, all man and beast not in houses—if not brought into your house they will die as the hail falls.

Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.

Desde la entrada norte hasta la sur había cadáveres Australes, Ainari y Ritiones, todos mezclados en una papilla de sangre y lodo, vísceras y excrementos.

At least a third of all the people in the world died.

Why else do you think the world destroyed itself?' 'It was an accident!' 'Yes, and who caused the accident? Men!

He said that there was no reason to suppose that good would come out of evil: society couldn't be expected to mature overnight just because there had been a catastrophe. In fact, probably just the opposite would happen. He said that when there were shortages people always fought and became aggressive.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

une modeste bombe atomique fait cent mille morts, sans compter tous ceux qui mourront des maladies induites par la radioactivité, des années, voire des décennies plus tard.

Death releases the energy into air. If a true catastrophe is looming, the disturbance becomes such that a sensitive individual may become highly troubled by it. He may be aware exactly when and where it will occur. He may see an aura around people who are soon to die. Or he may see images of the disaster beforehand...

It was the night before the end of the world.

Talking around the edge of a catastrophe. But wasn't that what people did, if you were still alive?

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

As someone who struggles with anxiety and cowardice, as we all do, I'm profoundly inspired by. . . . full-on commitment to wonder, to wonder as a response to anguish or difficulty. It makes everything a puzzle, right? A catastrophe is nothing but a puzzle with the volume of drama turned up very high.

every catastrophe can hand us exactly what we need to awaken into who we really are.

He's right that war destroys … can destroy everything.

Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do.

We may yet work up to some serious shooting war, or maybe some acts of urban genocide committed with rogue nuclear weapons. But if that were the case, why would we call that '9/11'? If Washington disappeared in a mushroom cloud, we'd give that huge event a different name.

Every day, it seems, a new extreme weather catastrophe happens somewhere in America, and the media's all over it, profiling the ordinary folks wiped out by forest fires, droughts, floods, massive sinkholes, tornadoes.

Then I had lunch with my cousin who works for WaterAid and she said yes, it's a catastrophe. And another catastrophe is that every day 1,400 children die from poisoned water, so now I'm an ambassador for WaterAid.

I think there's a lot of catastrophe in this world and a lot of cruelty and a lot of carelessness.

We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops.

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.