Quotes About Catastrophe

The end of the world begins in the sea we love.

Don't you get it? It's the end of the world! That's exactly when you fall in love. When else?

One of the team members perished, and a second was badly injured." "Sounds like an ideal situation for involving a fourteen-year-old girl

Lessons: Diversity = resilience. Abundance = resilience. to survive catastrophe, you need a surplus, a reservoir, money under the mattress, food in the fridge. If you're already starving, you won't survive a famine. Take the world down to the bone and the only thing that flourishes are boneyards; the only thing that expands is collapse.

I can see we're going to get along like a house on fire, said Miss Tick. There may be no survivors.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.

That's Third Thoughts for you. When a huge rock is going to land on your head, they're the thoughts that think: Is that an igneous rock, such as granite, or is it sandstone?

Vimes felt a sudden surge of civic pride. There had to be something right about a citizenry which, when faced with catastrophe, thought about selling sausages to the participants.

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow.

That's how it goes, you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.

He felt as if he'd been shipwrecked on the Titanic but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania.

I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.

If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.

If this is the end of the world, give me a fork and a knife.

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

I often think, that she foresaw only the end times, never hot dogs.

We want an apocalypse to look like an apocalypse, not a slow day at the mall.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy; the farcical is but a cloak for coming catastrophe.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening," Mimmy says.

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

Anticipating the worst doesn't provide insurance from the worst happening

THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE IS THE HUMAN RACE

It took seconds for the deluge to wipe the battlefield clean. A few seconds more, and the city was completely enveloped. The water smothered everything that breathed. It dissolved man-made structures as if they were sand castles. The torrential wave made its way across the plain, extinguishing everything in its path. All flesh that moved on the land died, everything in whose nostrils was the breath of life died. Elohim blotted out every living thing that was on the face of the ground.

Then the lightning struck. A massive display of multiple lightning strikes painted the sky with a frightening brush. It lit the combustible elements in the whirlwind. A rainstorm of fire and brimstone from heaven engulfed the four cities of the plain in a furnace of sulfurous flames. Nothing survived.