Quotes About Catastrophe

He knew too what it was to live through a hurricane with the other people of the island and the bond that the hurricane made between all people who had been through it. He also knew that hurricanes could be so bad that nothing could live through them.

When a great tree came down, the report could be heard for miles, a shifting crescendo of rustling and snapping as the trunk yanked away the limbs around it, culminating finally in a muffled thud like a sledgehammer striking moss.

Perhaps because waiting for an inevitable disaster is worse than the disaster itself.

If you want to do real damage, you don't just break a thing, you destroy a system.

The end of the world was one week old and it was getting out of hand.

May Ye All Wail, for the Destroyer of Nations is upon us. Your lands shall they trample and divide with rope. Your cities razed shall be, their dwellers expelled. The bat, owl and raven your homes shall infest, and the serpent will therein make its nest . . . Aen Ithlinnespeath     The

What if an asteroid were to strike planet Earth? What could we possibly do to prevent it? However many guys we have working on this problem, it can't possibly be enough.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

the walls of the cabin burst outwards in a sheet of flame. Logs were thrown high into the sky, spinning end over end before they crashed back down to earth

They were pitifully few in numbers. More than two thirds of the town's population had died in the storm

Someday, when all your civilization and science are likewise swept away, your kind will pray for a man with a sword.

There is no god but evil; no lite but darkness; no hope but doom—

It is good that war is so horrible, or we might grow to like it.

It is good that war is terrible. Or else we would become too fond of it.

Their [the Rabbi's] answer to the catastrophe that befell the Jewish community in the Roman period was to embrace life even more intensely than before.

Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

The catastrophe of the tragic hero thus becomes the catastrophe of the fifth-century man; all his furious energy and intellectual daring drive him on to this terrible discovery of his fundamental ignorance - he is not the measure of all things but the thing measured and found wanting.

How easy it was to capitalize on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

How easy it was to capitalise on a person's own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.

Qué fácil era sacar provecho de la inclinación de una persona por la autodestrucción, qué sencillo impulsarla a la no existencia y, después, alejarse, encogerse de hombros y decir que había sido el inevitable resultado de una vida caótica y catastrófica.

Hell's broken loose.