Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCIt would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCIs all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Once you hear the details of a victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.
—Jean-Paul Sartre, 1951We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906I think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCAll men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992