465 Quotes About Disaster

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea has been an absolute disaster to the public image of astronomy.

If a country is not governed well, all sort of disasters will become a routine of that country!

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

[T]he normal and the everyday are often amazingly unstoppable, and what is unimaginable is the cessation of them. The world is resilient, and, no matter what interruptions occur, people so badly want to return to their lives and get on with them. A veneer of civilization descends quickly, like a shining rain. Dust is settled.

What a disaster the biologically toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has turned into for the State of Hawaii.

Some of my operations are great triumphs and tremendous. But they're only triumphs because there are also disasters

Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.

Often, when something bad happens, I have a strange, instinctual desire for things to get even worse—I think of a terrible outcome and then wish for it. I recognize the pattern, but I don’t understand it. It’s as though my mind is running simulations and can’t help but prefer the most dramatic option—as though, in that eventuality, I could enjoy it from the outside.