Quotes About Catastrophe

assaulted and robbed, and many of his companions were killed.

Les malheurs n'inspirent jamais confiance, et l'horreur des grands massacres enlaidit jusqu'aux victimes.

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

There should have been an earth shattering Ka-Boom!

It's okay if we turned entire cities full of people into nuclear ash, but the idea of monsters having a nibble afterward was just too much.

No matter what, the Earth is fucked," Rigney said. "Excuse the language, but that's the gist of what I'm hearing from you.

When the drive failed, the ship exploded. And when I say "exploded" I mean "interacted catastrophically with the topography of space/time in ways we're not entirely able to explain," but "explode" gets the gist of it, particularly with regard to what would happen to a human caught in it.

I'm not one of those famous people flying round the world emoting over every catastrophe. I'm too feeble.

Extinction is not an event, it is a chain reaction!

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

Nature, like the catastrophe at Pompeii or the metamorphosis of a nymph, freezes us into an accustomed cast of countenance. In the same way, the intonations of our voice express our philosophy of life, what one says to oneself at each moment about things.

The glass wall behind must have blown out as well, four stories of lethal shards surfing the roar of air and fire.

His older compatriot Friedrich Nietzsche had entertained no such hopes: "For long now our entire European culture has been moving with a tormenting tension that grows greater from decade to decade, as if towards a catastrophe: restless, violent, precipitate, like a river that wants to reach its end."23

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

boat had swept away most of their catch. Once

The world's ending, yeah. It's begun to bore her ...

You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.

One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.

nuclear flash in the night. She has been ready for this, more than ready, for a long time. Chasing was good, but never good

Lives are only one with living. How dare we, in our egos, claim catastrophe in the rise and fall of the individual entity? There is only Life, and we are beads strung on its strong and endless thread.

Master Ren: "To quote the poets.. we're fucked".

At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check – ironically enough – the reactor's safety.

It was not the building of bunkers beneath private land that would allow us to survive the catastrophes we faced, but the strengthening of communities that already existed.

I myself am the apocalypse of which I speak.