Is all our fire of shipwreck wood?
—Robert Browning, 1862Quotes
To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat.
—Milan Kundera, 1978It would be impossible to live for a year without disaster unless one practiced character-reading.
—Virginia Woolf, 1924When arms speak, the laws are silent.
—Cicero, 52 BCI think we are inexterminable, like flies and bedbugs.
—Robert Frost, 1959Pride and excess bring disaster for man.
—Xunzi, 250 BCCalamities 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, 2000It belongs to a nobleman to weep in an hour of disaster.
—Euripides, 412 BCWhy listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
—Larry Kramer, 1992All the married heiresses I have known have shipwrecked.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
—D.H. Lawrence, 1928All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
—Edmund Burke, 1796