Quotes About Catastrophe

Everything's going along as usual and then all shit breaks loose.

Los Angeles weather is the weather of catastrophe, of apocalypse, and, just as the reliably long and bitter winters of New England determine the way life is lived there, so the violence and the unpredictability of the Santa Ana affect the entire quality of life in Los Angeles, accentuate its impermanence, its unreliability. The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

Like the homeless, refugees are living embodiments of a disturbing possibility: that human privileges are quite fragile, that one's home, family, and nation are one catastrophe away from being destroyed.

Khi bom n?, nÆ°á»›c s? thành không khí. Không khí s? thành lá»­a. M?t tr?i s? bi?n m?t. Má»™t Ä'ám mây kh?ng l? hình n?m s? dâng lên b?u tr?i. Và t?t c? chúng tôi s? ch?t.

Some say the world may end with fire but some say world may end with ice.

The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.

To say there had been a loss was ludicrous; one lost a shoe or a set of keys. You did not suffer the death of a child and say there was a loss. There was a catastrophe. A devastation. A hell.

If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

But afterwards there occurred violent earthquakes and floods; and in a single day and night of misfortune all your warlike men in a body sank into the earth, and the island of Atlantis in like manner disappeared in the depths of the sea.

The most famous of them all was the overthrow of the island of Atlantis.

Before August 29, 2005, "antediluvian" was simply a word to me, a pretty Biblical reference that had a nice ring to it but no real personal resonance for me. I vaguely understood that it connoted a state of innocence

Premonitions of the imminent catastrophe had condensed like a sticky dew in the houses and the streets, in cautious conversations and drowsy consciences.

Some say men continually war against circumstances, but I say they perpetually flee. What are the works of men if not a momentary respite, a hiding place soon to be discovered by catastrophe? Life is endless flight before the hunter we call the world. —EKYANNUS VIII, 111 APHORISMS Spring

Even in an apocalypse like this, surely running out of Coke qualified as a disaster.

Wake me for the massacre, okay? Don't want to miss it.

The saga started out a normal day—don't they all? I mean, surely one morning back there in prehistoric times a dinosaur woke up, yawned, chewed some coffee beans, and thought his day was going to be dead boring, just before a comet slammed into his neighborhood.

Tout grandit, m'a-t-il dit un jour, sauf les catastrophes. Elles sont énormes quand elles naissent; ensuite, elles rapetissent un peu plus chaque jour.

Only catastrophe can bring about radical change for the better.

thermonuclear decline.

He had been greeted by a black screen with one word in white block letters: Tragedy.

or which might one day flare violently enough to boil oceans and incinerate an entire hemisphere.

then came an evil wind, that blew the seeds of misfortune into my garden.

I don't think the end of the world is the end of the world.