Bill Waterson - Samuel Richardson - William Shakespeare - Robertson Hare - Virgil - Joseph Addison - George Orwell - Mark Twain
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made. Bill Waterson
Calamity is the test of integrity. Samuel Richardson
Why should calamity be full of words? William Shakespeare, Richard III IV iv 126, Duchess of York to Queen Margaret
Oh, calamity! Robertson Hare
Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance. Virgil
Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another. Joseph Addison
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life. George Orwell
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for. Mark Twain