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Quotes About Catastrophe

I feel like I'm standing in the wake of a volcano erruption.
~ Alice Sebold
Alistair Moffat
~ nuclear winter
my man world will blow up
~ Allen Ginsberg
Birth, n.: The first and direst of all disasters.
~ Ambrose Bierce
There's always a worse case than your worst case, and more often than not, it happens.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm seein' the syphilitic afterbirth of a Mongolian clusterfuck, is what I see there.
~ Joe Coleman
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem.
~ Joe Hill
It was the end of the world, but you could still hit the drive-thru on your way to oblivion.
~ Joe Hill
The whole world can burn down around us. I'll keep my arms around you until the end.
~ Joe Hill
Death and ruin is man's preferred ecosystem. Did you ever read about the bacterium that thrives in volcanoes, right on the edge of boiling rock? That's us. Humanity is a germ that thrives on the very edge of catastrophe.
~ Joe Hill
They have eighties sing-alongs after breakfast. Toto and Hall & Oates." "In that case," the Fireman said, "I think I'd rather burn alive.
~ Joe Hill
There have been six extinction events in the life of this planet. I bet every one of them was the spore.
~ Joe Hill
The people who had witnessed the mushroom cloud rising from Hiroshima could've felt no less.
~ Joe Hill
Probably fire and pestilence to follow, could be a plague of boils and locusts, maybe an egg and bacon shortage to top things off.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
The only thing that didn't seem to belong here was the hospital room itself. It would have been more appropriately suited to someone who was actually fighting for his life, or at least trying to get well. My eyes kept going back to the Post headline running in huge capital letters above the aerial photo of our house, or what had been our house, blasted to pieces and burned to the ground. Blown away.
~ Joe Schreiber
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide. - Anonymous
~ Joel C Rosenberg
Evil, unchecked, is the prelude to genocide.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
ground shake violently beneath her feet. She could hear the deafening blast. She could suddenly feel the scorching heat. She had enough time to realize that her best efforts to protect the president had failed, that it was over, and then, sure enough, it was.
~ Joel C. Rosenberg
The mystery of catastrophe discloses a fuller and deeper understanding of the why and the what behind diaspora and the catastrophes which lead to movements of people as refugees, migrants, and displaced peoples to fulfill God's global plan of redemption.
~ Joel Richardson
And when our sun explodes and we are all destroyed, we'll be rocks and chunks of I am not sure what, and maybe we'll rain down on somewhere else.
~ Joey Comeau
Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
~ Joey Comeau
The day dawns smiling, rational and bright, We're tangled in a net of dreams at night. From green fields we come home contentedly, 11770 A bird croaks: meaning what?—catastrophe! Bedeviled by superstitions, we imagine The least thing is a sign, a portent, omen. And so we tremble, feeling lost, alone. The door creaks and we stiffen—there's no one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Kiev's attempts to exert economic pressure on Donbas (region of east Ukraine) and disrupt its daily life only aggravates the situation. This is a dead-end track, fraught with a big catastrophe.
~ Vladimir Putin
There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will make fotr the eruption of volcanos in the Torrid areas... The upper portion of Europe will be changed in the blink of an eye. The earth will be broken up in the western portion of America. The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.
~ Edgar Cayce