Much has been said and written about calamity.These are some of the quotes and sayings that I like
Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.
~Virgil
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
~William Davenant
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
~Ambrose Bierce
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
~John Lancaster Spalding
What remains constant for me, during the last 15 years, has been the conviction that the cold war was a calamity for the entire world, and that it can be justified by no consideration of theory, nor by any supposed national interest.
~Earl Browder
When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.
~Samuel Johnson
The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
~Henry MacKenzie
These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
~Frederick Leboyer
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream. It is not disgrace to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to.
~Benjamin E. Mays
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.
~George Orwell
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.
~Bill Watterson
It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.
~Henry Mackenzie
The trees of life randomly grow but the graves of Arlington are set in rows.
~Saiom Shriver
Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
~ Seneca
He who forsees calamities, suffers them twice over.
~Beilby Porteus
These times of ours are serious and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
~Bible
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that I suppose would be a calamity.
~Benjamin Disraeli
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
~Publilius Syrus
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause; there’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
~William Shakespeare
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.
~Theodore Roosevelt
Half a calamity is better than a whole one.
~Lawrence of Arabia
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer
~Aeschylus
Today, no walls can separate humanitarian or human rights crises in one part of the world from national security crises in another. What begins with the failure to uphold the dignity of one life all too often ends with a calamity for entire nations.
~Kofi Annan
Calamity is virtue’s opportunity.
~Seneca
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.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
~Philip Massinger
We say, sorrow, disaster, calamity. God says, chastening and it sounds sweet to him though it is a discord to our ears. Don’t faint when you are rebuked, and don’t despise the chastening of the Lord. ”In your patience possess your souls.”
~Oswald Chambers
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.
~Charles Caleb Colton
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.
~William Shakespeare
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
~Mark Twain
It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
~Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
~Shirley Hazzard
O you who believe! call to witness between you when death draws nigh to one of you, at the time of making the will, two just persons from among you, or two others from among others than you, if you are travelling in the land and the calamity of death.
~Quran
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.
~Benjamin Disraeli
The real effect of the WTC calamity has been depressed spirits, anxiety, and uncertainty among publishers, and of course those emotions are not restricted to publishers.
~Richard Curtis
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice and the consequent loss of national self-respect and honor, beneath which are shielded and defended a people’s safety and greatness.
~Eldridge Cleaver
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~Oliver Goldsmith
He who sees the calamity of other people finds his own calamity light.
~Arabian Proverb
Fate is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.
~Publilius Syrus
Public calamity is a mighty leveler.
~Edmund Burke
He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.
~The Talmud
Thine own friend, and thy father’s friend, forsake not; neither go into thy brother’s house in the day of thy calamity: for better is a neighbour that is near than a brother far off.
~Bible
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
~John Lancaster Spalding
Calamity is man’s true touchstone.
~Unknown
When calamity approaches, discrimination departs.
~Sri Sathya Sai Baba
Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished? / Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
~Bible
Is not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? / To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.
~Bible
Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice.
~Grover Cleveland
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.
~Joseph Addison
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
~Hesiod
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes
A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~Oliver Goldsmith
A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
~Frederick Douglass
A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
~Andrew C. Bradley
Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.
~William Davenant
Calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.
~Virgil
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
~Sydney Smith
He is not valiant that dares die, but he that boldly bears calamity.
~Philip Massinger
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.
~Harry Emerson Fosdick
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
~Aeschylus
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
~Robert Bly
Learn to see in another’s calamity the ills which you should avoid.
~Publilius Syrus
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.
~Joseph Addison
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
~Samuel Richardson
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.
~Bill Watterson
Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.
~Sun Tzu
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.
~Peter Lombard
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
~Benjamin E. Mays
He who foresees calamities, suffers them twice over.
~Bishop Porteous
No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year — ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge — and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.
~Friedrich Nietzsche