(226 quotes found)
“The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things”
Ernest Dimnet
“Mankind has survived all catastrophes. It will also survive modern medicine.”
Gerhard Kocher
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Isaac Asimov
“The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues”
Louis Wolfson
“It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.”
Virginia Woolf
“There are so many tensions involved in any creative activity so when there is a catastrophe you never indicate that you think the end of the world has come. You examine it and say, "Well, this is a fine new catastrophe. Now, what else is important today?"”
Goeran Gentele
“One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.”
George Sand
“Great breakthroughs are always followed by great catastrophes”
Rosalia de Castro
“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
George Clemenceau
“Have you noticed that life, real honest to goodness life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?”
Jean Anouilh