Quotes: Calamity
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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.
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These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
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It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
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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.
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Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
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We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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