Calamity Quotes

No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can't be made of it

Your calamity was sent to bring you back to the Quran. But the greater calamity is that you missed the point.

Equanimity is calamity's medicine.

Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.

Bear sorrows and calamities patiently, otherwise you will never be happy.

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

He who faces no calamity gains no courage.

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

The wickedness of the few makes the calamity of the many.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.

We can be serene even in the midst of calamities and, by our serenity, make others more tranquil.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

Half a calamity is better than a whole one.

Until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah

Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one calamity.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

marriage was a calamity, but it was not an occupation.

Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.

It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.

No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.

These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.

The stock actor is a stage calamity

Crises are challenges, not calamities.

I would say the damage here is much more [than the tsunami], the magnitude of the calamity here is much more

A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

Bear calamities with meekness.

The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

Calamity was ordained for man.

What good is religion if it collapses under calamity?

What a blessed truth to understand that, in the middle of all of our difficulties and calamities, we have a refuge.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

miracles had to be paid for; only calamity was free.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

Hatred is internal calamity that destroys the keeper

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.

The worst calamity: 'To have eyes and fail to see.'

It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.

Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.