Quotes About Catastrophe

History takes place between the Fall and the Apocalypse, with a narrow escape route called Salvation.

There has yet to be a human to survive a span of history without at least one end of the world.

If there's one thing that a study of history has taught us, it is that things can always get worse.

The BP spill was the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history. Yet somehow, gas companies like BP and Halliburton ran interference on reporting that story.

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.

There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them

...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

Because normal human activity is worse for nature than the greatest nuclear accident in history.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.

A six mile meteorite cannot compare with a culinary cataclysm of this magnitude.

It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.

Every death is like the burning of a library.

We have to believe that our prayers, if pure and powerful can transform any catastrophic situation, regardless of its magnitude.

Pompei Quante case diventano una Pompei vivente, non spolverate, non sgombre La catastrofe non è soltanto improvvisa I cuori si fermano in tutti i modi non solo uno A volte la chiave di casa va perduta a volte la serratura A volte il significato di una fine sta nel bussare che non è stato fatto p#163

Why does there have to be promise before destruction?

Gottmann—this was at the turn of the century— pointed to the young English girl who predicted the exact day World War I would begin—six years before it began. "In effect, then, [Edna Naylor] was a human banshee," Gottmann wrote, "warning the entire world of impending catastrophe. Alas, nobody paid her the least attention.

Attends-toi à l'inattendu! Voilà comment je peux concilier ma crainte de catastrophe réelle avec mon espoir, que je maintiens toujours, envers et contre tout.

Wall Street billionaires are predicting that Roosevelt-style railroad rate regulation will sooner or later bring about financial catastrophe. [ca. 1906]

Our fears have typically already decided that the worst is about to happen. Catastrophe is upon us and there is no hope. But "Don't be afraid," when spoken by the Lord, is a promise that the end will be different from what we predict.