Quotes on Calamity

Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities.

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

Whereupon a strange euphoria came over me. Not only was I exiled, paralyzed, mute, half deaf, deprived of all pleasures, and reduced to the existence of a jellyfish, but I was also horrible to behold. There comes a time when the heaping up of calamities brings on uncontrollable nervous laughter - when, after a final blow from fate, we decide to treat it all as a joke.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.