Quotes About Catastrophe

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

nightmares of earthquakes, and

love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down

Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.

When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.

One of these days they'll be making a film where the whole human race gets wiped out in a nuclear war, but everything works out in the end.

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.

A war between Saudi Arabia and Iran is the beginning of a major catastrophe in the region, and it will reflect very strongly on the rest of the world. For sure, we will not allow any such thing.

There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

There is an ancient legend which warns that, should we ever learn our true origin, our universe will instantly be destroyed.

When you look at the origins and evolution of life on Earth, it's been severely affected by asteroid impacts through history.

As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.

The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.

She had been told of a thing that sounded like a locomotive. And that thing was a flood.

this fails—then woe to Europe!

unearthing some of the most disturbing moments in Austrian history. He had made a sort of subspecialty of studying intellectuals persecuted in the pre-Nazi era, and we discussed his fascinating work on the assassination of Hugo Bettauer, the writer and editor whose dystopian 1923 novel, Die Stadt Ohne Juden (The City Without Jews), remains one of the most uncanny predictions of a historic catastrophe ever written.

a day without a disaster would be a day in someone else's life. - Bobbie Faye

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

Something is coming to shake the earth. Something is coming to scorch the ground. Jade Mountain will fall beneath thunder and ice, unless the lost city of night can be found.

Um," Starflight said as a horrifying thought struck him. "There's no chance this volcano is about to erupt, is there?

Well, then, maybe she needed more friends so that some of them could be expendable. If anything happened to Clay right now, it would be the END OF ALL THINGS. She would literally burn down the world.

AAAAAACK UNSPECIFIED CATASTROPHE EVERYTHING IS TERR — ooh, I do need a snack right now,

For a palace surrounded by water, it was surprising how much caught on fire so quickly.