Somewhere inside of me I am crying, too, because I'm feeling things at last. I'm feeling not just the physical pain, but all that I have lost, and it is profound and catastrophic and will leave a crater in me that nothing will ever fill. —Gayle Forman in If I Stay More about this quote Tags: feeling crying will pain catastrophe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance. —Thomas Cahill More about this quote Tags: war history pain grace catastrophe outrage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. —Doug Larson More about this quote Tags: language English catastrophe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible. —Edward Teller More about this quote Tags: life catastrophe Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email