“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters”
Daniel Defoe
“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
“The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for”
Mark Twain
“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
“Half a calamity is better than a whole one”
Lawrence of Arabia
“Yield not to calamity, but face her boldly.”
Virgil
“Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
