Quotes About Catastrophe

Accursed! Accursed! You shall be accursed to the thirteenth generation!

In a radiated planet, the walking dead might be the only creatures left "alive." We

His gut told him this was a clusterfuck beyond all clusterfucks.

The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy. It is derived, no doubt, from love of home and desire for a refuge from danger; we find, accordingly, that it is most passionate in those whose lives are most exposed to catastrophe.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

What is the appeal of accelerationism today? It can be understood as a response to the particular social and political situation in which we currently seem to be trapped: that of a long-term, slow-motion catastrophe.

I thought about the current contamination of beaches, raw sewage spilling into oceans and streams, the hole in the ozone, forests being stripped, the toxic-waste dumps, the merry plunder of mankind added to the drought and the famine that nature dishes up annually as a matter of course. It's hard to know what's actually going to get us first. Sometimes I think we should just blow the whole planet and get it over with. It's the suspense that's killing me.

Violent death is like a monster. The closer you get to it, the more damage you sustain if you survive at all.

What we were concerned about—what seems to be happening now—is volcanoes

Walking onto his terrace those first months to see in the distance the well-behaved mountain sitting under the sun might provoke a reverie about the calm that follows catastrophe.

The disaster came so swiftly and so completely that there was, Ryan conceded, a certain poetry in its magnificence.

The war went from bad to worse and the Government was universally detested. As each fresh catastrophe came to the public's notice some small share of blame might attach itself to this or that person, but in general everyone united in blaming the Ministers, and they, poor things, had no one to blame but each other – which they did more and more frequently.

There is an hour, a minute - you will remember it forever - when you know instinctively on the basis of the most inconsequential evidence, that something is wrong. You don't know - can't know - that it is the first of a series of "wrongful" events that will culminate in the utter devastation of your life as you have known it.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Was den Menschen vom Tier unterschied, war die Fähigkeit, im Angesicht der Katastrophe "Siehste!" zu denken.

Wenn von zwei ausschließlichen Varianten eine die Katastrophe, die andere das Warten auf die Katastrophe bereithält, so räumt das Abwarten doch wenigstens dem Zufall eine winzige Chance ein.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it?

They say the captain goes down with the ship, so when the world ends, will God go down with it? (note from me: of course I don't believe this, I just thought it was interesting)

It didn't matter which side you were on. It was an empty, cavernous world in which young boys groped around in the dark, dreading the next step, which might be on a landmine or into a booby trap. It was a world of death. No one came out of it unscathed. It was a world with only one law: kill or be killed. [204]

But Joyce proclaimed his vision as comic, seeing himself as 'red-nosed', not 'blue-jawed'. Of an international catastrophe, he said, with apparent flippancy: 'Now they're bombing Spain—isn't it better that I'm making a colossal joke instead?

Some men just like to watch the world burn.

When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns it's back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.