Quotes on Calamity

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.

Author: Charles Colton

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

Author: William Davenant

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.

Author: Benjamin Disraeli

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

Author: Hesiod

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

Author: Oliver Holmes

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

Author: Samuel Johnson

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

Author: Frederick Leboyer

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.

Author: Peter Lombard

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

Author: Philip Massinger

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Author: Samuel Richardson

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

Author: John Spalding

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

Author: Publilius Syrus

Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.

Author: Virgil

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

Author: Virgil

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.

Author: Bill Watterson