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