Quotes About Catastrophe

The misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen.

The Jacobeans had a sure grasp of catastrophe. They understood not only evil, it seemed, but the extravagance of tricks with which evil presents itself as good. I felt they cut right to the heart of the matter, to the essential rottenness of the world.

Ninguém nunca, jamais, vai conseguir me convencer de que a vida é uma coisa incrível e gratificante. Porque, esta é a verdade: a vida é catástrofe.

Because I don't care what anyone says or how often or winningly they say it: no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. Because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe. The basic fact of existence—of walking around trying to feed ourselves and find friends and whatever else we do—is catastrophe.

no one will ever, ever be able to persuade me that life is some awesome, rewarding treat. because, here's the truth: life is catastrophe

And if there's no trouble, you'll make it,' offered Will Scott, his eyes bright, his cheeks red. 'No. At the moment,' affirmed Lymond grimly, 'I am having truck with nothing less than total calamity.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it.

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever. This is not her story.

Esta no es la historia de la muchacha. Sino la de aquella catástrofe terrible y estúpida, y la de algunas de sus consecuencias. También es la historia de un libro, titulado Guía del autoestopista galáctico; no se trata de un libro terrestre, pues nunca se publicó en la Tierra y, hasta que ocurrió la terrible catástrofe, ningún terrícola lo vio ni oyó hablar de él.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.

For there was once a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised ever again.

It seems that a civilization-wide catastrophe involving the "death" of all these cities occurred at approximately the same time, around 1500—the time of the Spanish conquest. Yet the Spanish never conquered the region; they never explored or even penetrated these remote jungles.

the Mosquitia civilization vanished everywhere all at once—in a sudden, civilization-wide catastrophe.

She called it the Catastrophe-Inducing Agency

Oui... sans son regard fulgurant, sans ses yeux de lynx, Hercule Poirot serait peut-être mort écrasé, à l'heure qu'il est. Quelle effroyable calamité pour l'humanité toute entière ! Vous aussi, mon bon ami, vous auriez pu y rester ; mais cela n'aurait pas été une catastrophe nationale.

Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it's fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And

Mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre.

sea in a terrible storm off Cape St Vincent. All hands were lost. The ship

Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters are blamed by the general public on the scientists. Widespread riots occur, laboratories are burnt down, physicists are lynched, books and instruments are destroyed. Finally a Know-Nothing political movement takes power and successfully abolishes science teaching in schools and universities, imprisoning and executing the remaining scientists.

Earthshaking fire from the center of the Earth will cause tremors around the New City. Two great rocks will war for a long time, then Arethusa will redden a new river.

An asteroid or a supervolcano could certainly destroy us, but we also face risks the dinosaurs never saw: An engineered virus, nuclear war, inadvertent creation of a micro black hole, or some as-yet-unknown technology could spell the end of us.

Accursed be he that first invented war.