Catastrophe Quotes

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

We saw what happens with Bolsheviks. It was another catastrophe. I don't have the solution. The moviemaker can ask questions but not give solutions.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.