Disaster Quotes - Page 39

• The trick is to find happiness in the brief gaps between disasters.

  Christopher Paolini

  Finding Happiness, Gaps, Tricks

  Christopher Paolini (2014). “The Inheritance Cycle Complete Collection: Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance”, p.1603, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Any idea of a United India could never have worked and in my judgment it would have led us to terrific disaster.

  Muhammad Ali Jinnah

  Ideas, India And Pakistan, India Pakistan

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• As for life's tragedies, our love will defeat them. Love is the most effective cure. In the crevices of disasters, happiness lies like a diamond in a mind, so let us instill in ourselves the wisdom of love.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Lying, Love Is, Mind

  FaceBook post by Naguib Mahfouz from Feb 14, 2016

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• Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people were so kind and helpful and solid. Everyone pretended that our lives until that moment had been every bit as real as the moment itself and that the future must be real too, when the truth was that our reality had been purchased only by Lyell's death. In another hour or so we had all faded out again and gone our dim ways.

  Walker Percy

  Real, People, Gone

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer: A Novel”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• In recent weeks it has come to my attention that many caravans have met with disaster; they have not gotten through." I grunted wisely. "Probably ran out of water. That's the thing about deserts. Dry." "Indeed. A fascinating analysis. But survivors reaching Hebron report differently: monsters fell upon them in the wastes." "What, fell upon them in a squashed-them kind of way?" "More the leaped-out-and-slew-them kind. (...)

  Jonathan Stroud

  Water, Monsters, Survivor

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• I want you bad like a natural disaster. You are all I see. You are the only one I want to know.

  Henry Rollins

  Want, Natural, Knows

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• Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

  Ilona Andrews

  Crazy, Earthquakes, Tornadoes

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.89, Penguin

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• London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.

  Anna Quindlen

  Book, Past, Long

  Anna Quindlen (2006). “Imagined London: A Tour of the World's Greatest Fictional City”, p.19, National Geographic Books

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• There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Recipes, Becoming

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.258, Broadway Books

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• He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Summer, Dream, Morning

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.377, e-artnow

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• Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Healing, Angel, Wings

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• Why would a man not argue his own shameful culpability, why would he not crave responsibility for disaster, when the alternative was to feel himself to be nothing more than a speck of human dust?

  Julie Orringer

  Responsibility, Men, Dust

  FaceBook post by Julie Orringer from Jan 17, 2017

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• When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Deliverance

  Max Lucado (1999). “He Still Moves Stones”, p.160, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fey...a Scotch word...It means the kind of exalted happiness that comes before disaster. You know--it's too good to be true.

  Agatha Christie

  Mean, Scotch, Fey

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• Sometimes Dustfinger thought Basta's constant fear of curses and sudden disaster probably arose from his terror of the darkness within himself, which made him assume that the rest of the world must be exactly the same.

  Cornelia Funke

  Darkness Within, World, Assuming

  Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.462, Scholastic Inc.

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• Christians are usually sincere and well-intentioned people until you get to any real issues of ego, control power, money, pleasure, and security. Then they tend to be pretty much like everybody else. We often given a bogus version of the Gospel, some fast-food religion, without any deep transformation of the self; and the result has been the spiritual disaster of "Christian" countries that tend to be as consumer-oriented, proud, warlike, racist, class conscious, and addictive as everybody else-and often more so, I'm afraid.

  Richard Rohr

  Christian, Spiritual, Country

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• All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Stars, Long, Effort

  Olaf Stapledon (1931). “Last and First Men, & Star Maker: Two Science-fiction Novels”, p.379, Courier Corporation

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• You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Feet, Invisible Monsters

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.260, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

  Hilary Mantel

  Life, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Bring Up the Bodies". Book by Hilary Mantel, May 8, 2012.

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• If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.

  Jefferson Bass

  Hero, Play, Giving

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• It's not like you take the right turning and you get everlasting happiness and you take the wrong one and your life's a disaster. In real life it's often impossible to tell which decision is the one you should make because what you stand to gain and what you stand to lose are sometimes-often-neck and neck.

  Marian Keyes

  Real, Decision, Gains

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• We run down the right fork, Manchee at our heels, the night and a dusty road stretching out in front of us, an army and a disaster behind us, me and Viola, running side by side.

  Patrick Ness

  Running, Army, Night

  Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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• The whole world is a disaster waiting to happen.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting, World, Happens

  Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

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• We're the bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and love!

  Richard Bach

  Fun, Odds, Sea

  "The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story". Book by Richard Bach, 1984.

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• I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.

  Sam Shepard

  Hate, Temptation, Why Not

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