Calamity Quotes

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Therefore the elect shall go forth... to see the torments of the impious, seeing which they will not be grieved, but will be satiated with joy at the sight of the unutterable calamity of the impious.

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people's safety and greatness.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.