Best 369 quotes in «disaster quotes» category

They share another long look. This one is reserved for ill-fated observers in the moments before impending, inescapable calamity, whether it be natural disaster or violent failure of humanity; a look of resigned melancholy and awe, unblinking in the face of a revealed, horrific, sacred truth. And they realize again, in this darkest hour of the darkest day, they remain alone, fundamentally alone.

They told us it was a dance, a party, a pageant, so we ran laughing together straight into the disaster.

This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell.

This is what comes from the wrong kind of attentiveness. People get brain fade. This is because they've forgotten how to listen and look as children. They've forgotten how to collect data. In the psychic sense a forest fire on TV is on a lower plane than a ten-second spot for Automatic Dishwasher All. The commercial has deeper waves, deeper emanations. But we have reversed the relative significance of these things. This is why people's eyes, ears, brains and nervous systems have grown weary. It's a simple case of misuse.

Those crazy physicists that spend all day cooking themselves under an atomic reactor and all night writing stories for Weird World have done it. Spoiled my day completely. One of those idiots has hung the world up like a celluloid ball in an airstream.

Tragedy is a disaster; but desperation after that tragedy is a much greater disaster!

We can act to deal with the consequences of the earthquake and tsunami, but the disaster was only faintly political in the economics and indifference...the relief will be very political, in who gives how much (Bush offering 15 million, then 35 million under pressure, the cost of his inauguration and then 350 million under strong international pressure)...but the event itself transcends politics, the realm of things we cause and can work to prevent. We cannot wish that human beings were not subject to the forces of nature, including the mortality... we cannot wish for the seas to dry up, that the waves grow still, that the tectonic plates ceast to exist, that nature ceases to be beyond our abilities to predict and control... But the terms of that nature include such catastrophe and suffering, which leaves us with sorrow as not a problem to be solved but a fact. And it leaves us with compassion as the work we will never finish

We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

We do not engage in idle or intentional gossip which undermines someone else's integrity or which spreads the seeds of fear by talking unthinkingly about illness, disasters, and all the other fears which run rampant in the world.

What the fissure through which one sees disaster? The circle is unbroken; the harmony complete. Here is the central rhythm; here the common mainspring. I watch it expand, contract; and then expand again. Yet I am not included.

When dark situations arise, it is opportunity for you to reveal the leader in you. Rise and deal with them.

When someone refuses listening to reason disaster will surely follow.

When she thought of New York City now, the place where she’d lived for most of her life, the only home she’d ever really known, she realized the city was like a person who now oftentimes struggled to stand proud because both its legs had collapsed in a sea of dust, fire and scattered office papers.

You can't stop the storm from coming so you better run for cover.

You don't need another Human Being to make your life complete, but let's be honest. Having your wounds kissed by someone who doesn't see them as disasters In your soul, but cracks to put their love into, Is the most calming thing In this World.

You're a shit cake with cum for whipped cream and dynamite for candles.

We are creatures of rage and madness and bitter tears and we knew that from the start. Our end was disaster and we knew that from the start. We knew it all from the start.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

A friend of mine, a dedicated golfer, shot a hole in one playing by himself. Disaster.

After Skins I became mildly famous, which was a bit of a disaster.

A hotter, moister atmosphere is an atmosphere primed to trigger disasters.

Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

Actually, for everybody, having sex the first time is never a good time. It's always a disaster.

An orchestra full of stars can be a disaster.

America would have a disaster on trade, and America will have a disaster with open borders.

Any disaster you can survive is an improvement in your character, your stature, and your life

Any disaster is a learning process.

Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster.

As system virtualization becomes mainstream, IT managers will find a greater need for disk imaging for disaster recovery and systems deployment,.

A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.

Bogging down large armies in historically complex, dangerous areas ends in disaster.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.

A war is going to destroy our economy even further. It's going to be a threefold humanitarian disaster.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly balanced by their absolute inability to deal with success

Climate change disasters will displace more and more. Those who are most exposed are the poorest.

Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.

Did you know that the word 'tsunami,' which is now being used worldwide, is a Japanese word? This is indicative of the extent to which Japan has been subject to frequent tsunami disasters in the past.

Digital is a disaster. No digital radio has the correct time and they don't even agree with each other.

Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.

Disaster falls on those who try hardest to avoid it.

Disasters teach us humility.

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous and ubiquitous whereas it is more likely to have been sporadic both in time and place.

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature?

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster

Don't wait for a disaster to get to know your neighbors.

Disaster is private, in its way, as love is.

Eighteen years since the Chernobyl disaster. Is it just me surprized? Still no superheroes!