Quotes About Catastrophe

I long for some terrific disaster. Earthquake. Spectacular explosion. Her mother is messily but instantly and permanently eliminated, along with everybody else for miles around.

Important lecture!' cried Pnin. 'What to do? It is a catastroph!

The world was going to burn, and he was holding the match.

But I neglected to tell him about the Age of Shit. I didn't tell him about the shape of the age to come, which is becoming clearer and clearer to him. War will be all, devouring all, W. says. Human beings will be like rats, like vermin. And the skies will burn, W. says. He can see them burning.

A fantastically huge, roiling cloud, glowing bluish gray, swaggered over the city. It was more than three miles tall. Below it Hiroshima was boiling.

They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.

Vendors cursed as their baskets of fruit and vegetables toppled. A bamboo birdcage fell and burst open, scattering a flock of tiny white birds into the dusty air. Barrels rolled wildly through the streets, gushing wine as red as blood.

In the immediate aftermath of the crash, a young police officer named Pat McCann, who happened to be training at the airport that day, saw a man who had managed to get the upper half of his body through his window before the lower half was incinerated inside the plane.

He saw at least a dozen people still in their seats. Their clothes were torn or blown or burned from their bodies, "completely naked in front, missing limbs, missing faces, some breathing, some moaning, and others just deader than a door nail.

She's trying to sabotage all the magic holding this island together. But that would create a catastrophe for all of Hawaii." "Well, that does it," Koko huffed. "As of today, she's off my Christmas card list.

Scientists say that if the bombs drop again, no one will win because no one will survive. All life on Earth will end.

The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.

It does not take a long time," said madame, "for an earthquake to swallow a town. Eh well! Tell me how long it takes to prepare the earthquake?

eleven hundred defenceless prisoners of both sexes and all ages had been killed by the populace;

There is one inescapable fact: by the time the SOS was sent, the Morro Castle was beyond help.

The Morro Castle traveled 3.1 miles head on into the storm at a speed of 18.8 knots for over ten minutes. In that time, the wind, gusting at over 20 knots, had acted as a giant bellows, fanning and speeding the flames the length of the ship.

La salvación no fue un cambio de planes causado por la catástrofe no predicha de la caída. El plan original de Dios para la creación era que ésta encontrara su sentido y cumplimiento en Cristo y en su Evangelio.

The end of the world hurts like a bitch.

Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process.

The climate is not going to collapse because some party got the most votes. The politics that's needed to prevent the climate catastrophe—it doesn't exist today. We need to change the system, as if we were in crisis, as if there were a war going on."

Nel non volere che siano posti limiti alle nascite, la Chiesa mostra che non si è estinta tutta la sua vocazione primitiva alla catastrofe assoluta.

Non si vive «in attesa di una catastrofe», la catastrofe è vivente nell'umanità contemporanea come una divinità terribile nel proprio santuario, e ogni avanzamento della Tecnica è un suo movimento in avanti, un segno della sua attiva, della sua irreprimibile presenza.

Chaque vie connaît un jour ce type de séisme : ce moment où les sentiments deviennent des allumettes craquées au milieu d'une forêt desséchée. Le prélude à un incendie capable de ravager toutes nos fondations et de nous entraîner vers l'abîme. Ou la renaissance.

This is what the beginning of the end of the world will look like