Catastrophe Quotations

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

Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes.

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

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

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

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

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

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

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

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

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

I'll tickle his catastrophe.

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

A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.

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

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

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

I'm planning a catastrophe.

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

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

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

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.