Quotes About Catastrophe

The disaster ruins everything, all the while leaving everything intact

only human beings can recognize catastrophes, provided they survive them; Nature recognizes no catastrophes.

It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen could have extracted themselves from the struggle once it began, in advance of a decision on the battlefield.

Oh, please, Mr. B thinks, not a human. Not another human. He is filled with despair. God's passion for humans always leads to catastrophe, to meteorological upset on an epic scale. What is wrong with the boy that he can't get it up for some nice goddess? Why, oh why, can't he pursue a sensible relationship, one that will not end in disaster?

Heat and wind and poisonous smoke.

There is one thing we must appreciate about the disasters: They are perfectly just when they do their jobs!

some men aren't looking for anything logical, like money. They can't be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Once again the lake slammed through the dike like a truck driving through puddling, sending a fifteen-foot-high tsunami through the upper Glades, drawing the towns of Miami Locks, South Bay, Chosen, Pahokee, and Belle Glade, where the Glades Hotel was the only building left standing after the storm.

I think I am a realist. The reality is that things change; the question is, how will I perceive that change, and am I willing to change along with it? It may seem hard to believe, but it's catastrophe that offers the most promise for an even richer life.

Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?

History was becoming, as he would soon inform readers of the "Outline," 'a race between education and catastrophe.' The teaching of nationalistic history had fuelled the conflagration -- in Germany, most of all, but everywhere to some degree.

There are only four events that truly have the power to negatively affect the entire planet. One is all-out thermonuclear war. Another is an asteroid striking earth. The third is global climate change. And the fourth is infectious disease.

calamity of their own making.

An atmosphere of general catastrophe always alleviates individual catastrophe- that's probably why suicides are so rare in wartime

O atmosfer? de catastrof? global? face înrtotdeauna mai suportabile catastrofele individuale, acesta e motivul pentru care, negreÈ™it, sunt atât de rare sinuciderile în vreme de r?zboi.

You got it. Wham, bam, start the apocalypse, ma'am.

Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.

A major catastrophe that frustrates a central goal of life will either destroy the self, forcing a person to use all his psychic energy to erect a barrier around remaining goals, defending them against further onslaughts of fate; or it will provide a new, more clear, and more urgent goal: to overcome the challenges created by the defeat.

no point whatsoever meeting catastrophe with reason when what was needed was our prophets deranged and coming towards us wild-eyed and smeared with shit, ringing a bell, seer and sinner at once while speaking some language from the edge of reason whose message would translate into plain words as we're fucked well and truly fucked

were we so blind to the world teetering on the edge that we never straightened up from what we were doing to consider things more clearly or have we lost completely that brute instinct for catastrophe, that sensitivity now buried too deep beneath reason and manners to register but which, once upon a time, was alert to the first whining vibrations radiating from those stress points likely to give away first...

As I look back to the events of December 1991, each time I come to the conclusion that I had no right to act differently. To act counter to the decisions made by eleven republics, whose Supreme Soviets approved the Minsk agreement, would have meant to unleash a bloody slaughter, which might have developed into a global catastrophe.

Catastrophizing is my general approach to all social events: how, when, and why it will implode are the first things I think about

to have solely one thought, but it to be capable to destroy the universe.

Jay saw no sign of the more than twenty-seven hundred people22 who'd arrived at the Twin Towers that morning as workers, visitors, or emergency responders, or as airplane passengers and crew, but who'd soon be counted among the departed.