“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
George Clemenceau
“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Isaac Asimov
“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
“The tragedy, the true catastrophe, is that humanity continues”
Louis Wolfson
“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
“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