Quotes About Catastrophe

And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.

The end of the world, he'd thought. That's where he was. The end of the world was Houston, Texas.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

Whatever humanity inflicts on itself, nature can always go one better.

The Apocalypse. Millions… billions of people dying. And that's just the first phase of it. The initial disaster has knock on effects. It kills so many people, but it isn't quite the end of the world. In our time though it looks like we are heading for that.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Everywhere, the destruction is the same. The fire is raining down. People are panicking. There's worse than that too, because other natural disasters are rising up.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Science suggests that the asteroid strike that destroyed the dinosaurs was not going to be an isolated event, for example. There was always the possibility of more impacts.", FADE by Kailin Gow

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

For a Christian, the most essential thing God does in time, in all of human history, is to be that man in the crowd; a man under arrest, and on his way to our common catastrophe.

el subdesarrollo mexicano se encuentra en la catástrofe educativa, en la superstición religiosa y en la intolerancia política.

We have sown the wind; he is the hurricane

I am an atheist, but as far as blowing up the world in a nuclear war goes, I tell them not to worry.

You know, my mother used to say, a long time ago, whenever there would be any really---catastrophe that was in the movies or on the air, she would say, 'Always look for the helpers. There will always be helpers, just on the sidelines.

Der Mensch lernt in der Katastrophe, menschlich zu leben, was er im Frieden nicht kann.

when the world is about to end, the only real option is to save it.

I am mountains that crush. I am waves that crash. I am storms that shatter. I am the end.

Turned out that the end of the world had to actually arrive before people would take it seriously.

Breeze chuckled. "I don't know if you noticed the earthquake a few minutes ago, my dear man, but the world appears to be ending. That is an indisputably depressing event.

That didn't stop the world from ending, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.

The end of the world has come, and still nobody will listen.

Either way, we had him to thank for a world without flowers, where plants grew brown rather than green, and where people could survive in an environment where ash fell from the sky on a regular basis.

Aveva l'abitudine di dire che una buona volontà priva di una dose di buon senso poteva causare catastrofi ancora più grandi delle conseguenze di azioni compiute con malanimo e stupidità.

Dos conceptos resumen lo que ha sido y, probablemente, también lo que va a ser: supervivencia y destrucción.

It's a queer sensation, this secret belief that one stands on the brink of the world's greatest catastrophe. For it means the fall of Western Europe, as it fell in the fourth century. It recurs to me every November, and culminates every December. I have to get over it as I can, and hide, for fear of being sent to an asylum.