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Quotes About Catastrophe

For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off.
~ Henry Miller
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grâce, it needs to be blown to smithereens.
~ Henry Miller
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has been crazy enough to put a bomb up the asshole of creation and set it off. The world is rotting away, dying piecemeal. But it needs the coup de grace, it needs to be blown to smithereens.
~ Henry Miller
America is the very incarnation of doom. She will drag the whole world down to the bottomless pit. He
~ Henry Miller
La atmósfera está saturada de desastres, frustración, futilidad. Rascarse y rascarse... hasta que no quede piel. Sin embargo su efecto en mí es estimulante. En lugar de desanimarme, o deprimirme, disfruto. Pido a gritos cada vez más desastres, calamidades mayores, fracasos más rotundos. Quiero ver el mundo escacharrado, quiero que todo el mundo se rasque hasta morir.
~ Henry Miller
The Earth has been lawned with life for something over 3.5 billion years. That's a span of time great enough to encompass some honest-to-goodness catastrophe. For example, 700 million years ago, Earth underwent a planet-wide deep freeze, with ice covering the oceans from the poles to the equator.
~ Seth Shostak
That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.
~ Anna Lindh
If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.
~ George Galloway
New technologies are rapidly giving rise to unprecedented methods of warfare. Innovations that yesterday were science fiction could cause catastrophe tomorrow, including nanotechnologies, combat robots, and laser weapons.
~ Peter Maurer
My piece in One World or None was the description of the effect of a single atomic bomb on New York City.
~ Philip Morrison
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Some men just want to watch the world burn
~ Michael Caine
Notwithstanding such moments of comprehension as Kamenev displayed, the scope of the rural catastrophe was still clouded in Moscow by class-war idées fixes as the regime reflexively labeled the peasants' legitimate grievances "an uprising of kulaks, bandits, and deserters.
~ Stephen Kotkin
atmosphere, blotting out the sun. The fires subsided, giving way to an ensuing ice age
~ Steve Alten
However, if humans don't band together and start making noise about Ebola, half of the planet will be dead 2 years from now. Half of everyone currently living on Earth will no longer exist.
~ Steve King
the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...
~ Michel Leiris
train wreck
~ Michio Kaku
Earth changes unimaginably slowly except when it changes suddenly and catastrophically, like right now.
~ Michio Kaku
La Tierra ya ha sufrido cinco grandes ciclos de extinción, en cada uno de los cuales desapareció hasta el 90 por ciento de las formas de vida. Tan seguro como que el día sigue a la noche, habrá más en el futuro.
~ Michio Kaku
The pack of all disasters has moulded together and fallen on my neck." FRANCISCO PELSAERT
~ Mike Dash
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~ Mikhail Bulgakov
Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.
~ Milan Kundera
We wanted to destroy the world. With our messianism we nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their selfishness will save it.
~ Milan Kundera
There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."
~ Simon Barnes